The Ballad Of Jody Baxter

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Do you remember, Jody Baxter When the whippoorwill sings How you stole across the pasture To the little hidden spring? And you laid down by the water On a bed of Spanish moss And dreamed [Verse 2] When wind was on the prairie And the fire was in the stove With the wood you had to carry From the corner of the grove And your daddy let you disappear With all your fishing gear Into the cove [Chorus 1] And it was good, good, good But now it's gone, gone, gone And there's a little boy Who's lost out in the woods Always looking for the fawn [Verse 3] 'Cause I remember, Jody Baxter When I hid out in the corn How the clouds were moving faster With the coming of the storm And I knew that I had broken Something I could not repair And I mourned [Verse 4] 'Cause the field was green as Eden Then it withered into brown In the middle of my grieving Well, they came and cut it down And I was sure that it was all my fault The day they mowed the garden To the ground [Chorus 2] And what was good, good, good Was gone, gone, gone And there's a little boy Who's lost out in the woods Always looking for the fawn [Bridge] So come back to me Please, come back to me Is there any way that we can Change the ending of this tragedy? Or does it have to be this way? Hey, hey [Verse 5] Now I can see you, Jody Baxter Now you're broken by the years As you lay down in the aster And listen for the deer And I'm a million miles away But I still pray the fawn can find me Here [Outro] 'Cause it was good, good, good But now it's gone And there's a little boy Who's lost out in the woods Always looking for the fawn Yes, I'm a little boy Who's lost out in the woods Always looking for the fawn