Joni was a 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:
"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me.
I'll grow up some day you'll see.
Saving all my kisses just for you.
Signed with love forever true."
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:
"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."
Soon I left our little home town.
Got me a job and tried to settle down,
but these words kept haunting my memory,
the words that Joni said to me:
"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me.
I'll grow up some day you'll see.
Saving all my kisses just for you.
Signed with love forever true."
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.
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 hear what Joni had to say:
"Jimmy, Jimmy please don't cry.
You'll forget me by and by.
It's been five years since you've been gone.
and Jimmy I marry your best friend john