kris kristofferson
Written in 1968, Roy Drusky got the first hand on it. Also Roger Miller, Justin Tubb and Peter Lotis cut before Kris himself recorded it in 1971, lacking material for his second Monument album "The Silver Tongued Devil and I".
Drusky also named his 1968 album after this song. It seems like it's never been a single hit for anybody, but it has been used to fill up quite a lot of albums.
It is a nice and simple song about nice and simple people ... for nice and simple people. You can do a lot of good finger-picking within the few and simple chords.
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 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 levy holding hands
for as surely as the season 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
till the morning sun was shining on my bed
and at times when she was sleeping I'd smile when I'd remember
how they use 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 levy
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 saying
"looky yonder there goes Jody and the kid"
For the following CHORD section, fullscreen/horizontal mobile is recommended.
Chords in brackets may be omitted.
G she would meet me in the morning on my way down to the river G Am ... D7 waiting patient by the chinaberry tree Am D7 Am D7 with her feet already dusty from the pathway to the levee Am D7 G and her little blue jeans rolled up to her knees G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 I'd pay her no attention as she tagged along beside me G G7 Am trying hard to copy everything I did Am D7 Am D7 but I couldn't keep from smiling when I'd hear somebody saying Am D7 G looky yonder there goes Jody and the kid
