G           let ring                            
        She would meet me in the morning
               G     let ring          
        On my way down to the river
                                                Am (add D on B string) 
        Waiting patient by the chinaberry tree
           D            Am
        With her feet already dusty
                       D               Am
        From the pathway to the levy
                       D                  D7             G
        And her little blue jeans rolled up to her knees

Verse 2:
          G            
        I'd pay her no attention

        As she'd tag along beside me
            G7                     C
        Trying hard to copy everything I did
              Am                               D
        But I couldn't keep from smiling
                              Am            D
        When I'd hear somebody saying
                                 Am               D7            G 
        Looky yonder there goes Jody and the kid


Verse 3:
          A
        Even after we grew older

        We could still be seen together
                                         G7                          Am
        As we walked along the levy holding hands
          D             Am             D             Am
        For as surely as the season she was changin' to a woman
                                D               D7                  G
        And I lived enough to call myself a man


Verse 4:
          G
        As she often lay beside me

        In the coolness of the evening
                  G7                                                C
        'Til the morning sun was shining on my bed
                Am                 D
        And at times when she was sleeping
                          Am           D
        I'd smile when I'd remember
                                         Am             D7           G
        How they used to call us Jody and the kid


Verse 5:(Modulate to A)
          A           
        Now the world's a little older

        And the years have changed the river
                            A7                            Bm
        Cause there's houses where they didn't used to be
               E              Bm
        And on Sundays I go walking
                             E              Bm                            
        Down the pathway to the levy
                                E                      E7             A
        With another little girl who follows me


Verse 6:
        A
        And it makes the old folks smile

        To see her tag along beside me
                                               A7                    D
        Doing little things the way her mama did
        Bm             E
        But it gets a little lonesome
              Bm             E
        When I hear somebody sayin'
                                 E                    E7           A
        Looky yonder there goes Jody and the kid


[Thanks to Strat for corrections]