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