Jody And The Kid

(Kris Kristofferson)



She would meet me in the morning on my way down to the river

Waiting patient by the chinaberry tree

With her feet already dusty from the pathway to the levy

And her little blue jeans rolled up to her knees.



I'd pay her no attention as she tagged along beside me

Tryin' hard to copy everything I did

But I couldn't keep from smilin' when I'd hear somebody sayin'

"Looky yonder, there goes Jodie and the kid."



Even after we grew older we could still be seen together

As we walked along the levy holdin' hands

For as surely as the seasons she was changein' to a woman

And I'd lived enough to call myself a man.



And she'd often lay beside me in the coolness of the evening

Till the morning sun was shinin' on my bed

And at times when she was sleepin' I would smile when I'd remember

How they used to call us Jodie and the kid.



Now the world's a little older and the years have changed a river

'Cause there's houses where there didn't used to be

And on Sundays I go walking down the pathway to the levy

With another little girl who follows me.



And it makes the old folks smile to see her tag along beside me

Doin' little things the way her mama did

But it gets a little lonesome when I hear somebody sayin'

"Looky yonder there goes Jodie and the kid..."