Don't Cry Joni

[Verse 1: Conway] Joni was the girl who lived next door I've known her I guess ten years or more Joni wrote me a note one day And this is what she had to say [Chorus: Joni Lee] Jimmy please say you'll wait for me I'll grow up someday you'll see Saving all my kisses just for you Signed with love, forever true [Verse 3: Conway] Slowly I read her note once more Then I went over to the house next door Her teardrops fell like rain that day When I told Joni what I had to say [Verse 4: Conway] Joni, Joni, please don't cry You'll forget me by and by You're just fifteen I'm twenty-two And Joni I just can't wait for you [Verse 5: Conway] Soon I left our little hometown Got me a job and tried to settle down But these words kept haunting my memory The words that Joni said to me [Chorus: Joni Lee] Jimmy please say you'll wait for me I'll grow up someday you'll see Saving all my kisses just for you Signed with love, forever true [Verse 6: Conway] I packed my clothes and I caught a plane I had to see Joni I had to explain How my heart was filled with her memory And ask my Joni if she'd marry me [Verse 7: Conway] I ran all the way to the house next door But things weren't like they were before My teardrops fell like rain that day When I heard what Joni had to say [Verse 8: Joni Lee] Jimmy, Jimmy please don't cry You'll forget me by and by It's been five years since you've been gone Jimmy I married your best friend John