Jody And The Kid

She would meet him in the morning

On his way down to the river

Waiting 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

And he'd pay her no attention

As she tagged along beside him

Trying hard to copy everything he did

But I'd often see him smile

When he'd hear somebody say

"Looky yonder, there goes Jody and the kid"

Well, even after they grew older

They could still be seen together

As they walked along the levee holding hands

For as surely as the seasons

She was changing to a woman

And he'd lived enough to call himself a man

And I'd often watch them walking

In the coolness of the evening

Till the morning sun was shining on my bed

And sometimes when she was sleeping

I'd smile when I'd remember

How we used to call them Jody and the kid

Now the world's a little older

And the years have changed the river

'Cause there's houses where a house has never been

And on Sundays he goes walking

Down the pathway to the levee

With another little girl that follows him

And it makes the old folks smile

To see her tag along beside him

Doing little things the way her mama did

But I know that he gets lonesome

When he hears somebody saying

"Looky yonder, there goes Jody and the kid

Looky yonder, there goes Jody and the kid"