Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Ballad of Jody Baxter, artist - Andrew Peterson. Album song Light for the Lost Boy, in the genre
Date of issue: 27.08.2012
Record label: Centricity
Song language: English
The Ballad of Jody Baxter |
Do you remember, jody baxter |
When the whippoorwill sings |
How you stole across the pasture |
To the little hidden spring? |
Where you laid down by the water |
On a bed of spanish moss |
And dreamed |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Because the field was green as eden |
Then it withered into brown |
In the middle of my grieving |
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 |
What was good, good, good |
Is gone, gone, gone |
And there’s a little boy |
Who’s lost out in the woods |
Always looking for the fawn |
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? |
I can see you, jody baxter |
Now you’re broken by the years |
As you lie 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 |