Verse 1:
LA/ LA/ MI/
She would meet me in the morning
LA/ MI7/
On my way down to the river
LA7/ LA7/ MI7/ MI/
Waiting patient by the chant of every tree
LA7/ MI7/
With her feet already dusty
LA7/ MI7/
From the pathway to the levi
LA7/ MI7/ LA/
And her little blue jeans rolled up to her knees
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Verse 2:
LA
I'd pay her no attention
As she tagged along beside me
RE
Trying hard to copy everything i did
MI7
But i couldn't keep from smiling
MI
When i hear somebody saying
LA
Lucky under there goes Jody and the kid
Verse 3:
LA
Even after we grew older
We can still be seen together
MI7
As we walked along the levi holding hands
For as surely as the season she was changin' to a woman
LA
And i lived enough to call myself a man
Verse 4:
LA
And she often lay beside me
In the coolness of the evening
LA7 RE
Til' the morning sun was shining on my bed
MI7
And on times when she was sleeping
MI
I would smile and i'd remember
LA
How they use to call us Jody and the kid
Verse 5:(half a tone higher)
SIb
Now the words are a little older
And the years have changed the river
SIb7 MIb
Cause now they're houses where they didn't used to be
FA7
And on Sundays i go walking
FA
Down the pathway to the levi
SIb
With another little girl who follows me
Verse 6:
SIb
And it makes the ole folks smile
To see her tag along beside me
FA7
Doing little things the way her mama did
FA7/
But it gets a little lonesome
FA7/
When i hear somebody sayin'
SIb
Lucky under there goes Jody and the kid
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