Jody and the Kid

She would meet me in the morning

On my way down to the river

Waitin' patient by the chinaberry tree

With her feet already dusty

From the pathway to the levee

And her little blue jeans rolled up to her knees

I'd pay her no attention

As she tagged along beside me

Trying hard to copy everything I did

But I couldn't keep from smiling

When I'd hear somebody saying

Looky yonder there goes Jody and the kid

Even after we grew older

We could still be seen together

As we walked along the levee holding hands

For as surely as the seasons

She was changin' to a woman

And I'd lived enough to call myself a man

And she often lay beside me

In the coolness of the evening

'Til the morning sun was shining on my bed

And at times when she was sleeping

I'd smile when I'd remember

How they used to call us Jody and the kid

Now the world's a little older

And the years have changed the river

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

And on Sundays I go walking

Down the pathway to the levee

With another little girl who follows me

And it makes the old folks smile

To see her tag along beside me

Doing little things the way her mama did

But it gets a little lonesome

When I hear somebody sayin'

Looky yonder, there goes Jody and the kid