Lyrics The Ballad of Jody Baxter.lrc Andrew Peterson
[id: otcwosxl]
[ar: Andrew Peterson]
[al: Light for the Lost Boy]
[ti: The Ballad of Jody Baxter]
[length: 04:02]
[00:12.65]Do you remember, Jody Baxter
[00:16.33]When the whippoorwill sings
[00:19.02]How you stole across the pasture
[00:20.84]To the little hidden spring?
[00:23.58]Where you laid down by the water
[00:26.24]On a bed of Spanish moss
[00:28.08]And dreamed
[00:32.65]When wind was on the prairie
[00:35.34]And the fire was in the stove
[00:38.10]With the wood you had to carry
[00:39.89]From the corner of the grove
[00:42.65]And your daddy let you disappear
[00:45.34]With all your fishing gear
[00:47.11]Into the cove
[00:51.63]And it was good, good, good
[00:57.06]But now it’s gone, gone, gone
[01:01.65]And there’s a little boy
[01:03.45]Who’s lost out in the woods
[01:06.10]Always looking for the fawn
[01:10.66]I remember, Jody Baxter
[01:13.40]When I hid out in the corn
[01:16.19]How the clouds were moving faster
[01:18.87]With the coming of the storm
[01:20.68]And I knew that I had broken
[01:23.37]Something I could not repair
[01:26.02]And I mourned
[01:30.62]Because the field was green as Eden
[01:33.37]Then it withered into brown
[01:35.16]In the middle of my grieving
[01:37.84]They came and cut it down
[01:40.56]And I was sure that it was all my fault
[01:43.31]The day they mowed the garden
[01:45.16]To the ground
[01:49.68]What was good, good, good
[01:55.06]Is gone, gone, gone
[01:59.65]And there’s a little boy
[02:01.43]Who’s lost out in the woods
[02:03.24]Always looking for the fawn
[02:08.60]So come back to me
[02:13.28]Please, come back to me
[02:18.64]Is there any way that we can
[02:21.39]Change the ending of this tragedy?
[02:27.64]Or does it have to be this way?
[02:52.18]I can see you, Jody Baxter
[02:54.81]Now you’re broken by the years
[02:56.66]As you lie down in the aster
[02:59.45]And listen for the deer
[03:03.96]And I’m a million miles away
[03:06.62]But I still pray the fawn can find me
[03:10.25]Here
[03:52.83]Year of Release: 2012