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