Andrew Peterson – The Ballad Of Jody Baxter (Guitar)

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[Intro] D [Verse 1]
         D
Do you remember, jody baxter

         F#m7
When the whippoorwill sings

           G
How you stole across the pasture

          D              A
To the little hidden spring?

            D      D2/C#   G/B   
Where you laid down by the water

D    G      G/F#    Em
On a bed of spanish moss

     D     Dsus4  D   D2
And dreamed

          D
When the wind was on the prairie

        F#m7
And the fire was in the stove

           G
With the wood you had to carry

            D             A
From the corner of the grove

         D    D2/C#    G/B  D
And your daddy let you disappear

      G        G/F#    Em
With all your fishing gear

           D   Dsus4  D 
Into the cove
[Chorus]
             Bm    D     A
And it was good, good, good

               Bm   A     G
But now it's gone, gone, gone

                Bm
And there's a little boy

        A               G
Who's lost out in the woods

         A                 D   Dsus4  D   D2
Always looking for the fawn
[Verse 2]
     D
I remember, jody baxter

       F#m7
When I hid out in the corn

           G
How the clouds were moving faster

            D            A
With the coming of the storm

       D       D2/C#  G/B   
And I knew that I had broken

   D      G       G/F#   Em 
Something I could not repair

         D
And I mourned

               D
Because the field was green as eden

        F#m
Then it withered into brown

          G
In the middle of my grieving

       D              A
They came and cut it down

            D              A/C#
And I was sure that it was all my fault

     G                  A
The day they mowed the garden

         D
To the ground
[Chorus]
             Bm    D     A
And what was good, good, good

     Bm    A     G
Was gone, gone, gone

                 Bm
And there's a little boy

        A               G
Who's lost out in the woods

          A             D
Always looking for the fawn
[Bridge]
          G
So come back to me

               D
Please, come back to me

         Bm           D
Is there any way that we can

  A                           G
Change the ending of this tragedy?

             D     Asus4 A        D
Or does it have to be       this way?

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Hey   Hey   Hey   Hey
[Verse 3]
   D
I can see you, jody baxter

             F#m
Now you're broken by the years

        G
As you lie down in the aster

       D             A
And listen for the deer

          D       D2/C#  G/B   
And I'm a million miles away

    D        G       G/F#     Em 
But I still pray the fawn can find me

  D    Dsus4  D
Here
[Chorus]
               Bm    D     A
'Cause it was good, good, good

               Bm   A     G
But now it's gone

                 Bm
And there's a little boy

        A               G
Who's lost out in the woods

         A              D
Always looking for the fawn

            Bm
Yes I'm a little boy

       A                G
Who's lost out in the woods

         A              D
Always looking for the fawn

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Hey   Hey   Hey   Hey