[00:10.400]Joni was a girl who lived next door.
[00:14.880]I've known her I guess ten years or more.
[00:19.840]Joni wrote me a note one day,
[00:24.020]And this is what she had to say:
[00:32.680]"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me.
[00:38.110]I'll grow up some day you'll see.
[00:42.150]Saving all my kisses just for you.
[00:47.430]Signed with love forever true."
[00:55.300]Slowly I read her note once more.
[01:00.020]Then I went over to the house next door.
[01:04.620]Her teardrops fell like rain that day,
[01:09.420]when I told Joni what I had to say:
[01:18.010]"Joni, Joni please don't cry.
[01:22.880]You'll forget me by and by.
[01:27.550]You're just fifteen, I'm twenty-two,
[01:32.200]and Joni I just can't wait for you."
[01:40.400]Soon I left our little home town.
[01:45.550]Got me a job and tried to settle down,
[01:49.680]but these words kept haunting my memory,
[01:54.700]the words that Joni said to me:
[02:03.430]"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me.
[02:08.820]I'll grow up some day you'll see.
[02:12.800]Saving all my kisses just for you.
[02:18.300]Signed with love forever true."
[02:26.180]I packed my clothes and I caught a plane.
[02:31.410]I had to see Joni, I had to explain,
[02:35.580]How my heart was filled with her memory,
[02:40.490]and ask my Joni if she'd marry me.
[02:48.740]I ran all the way to the house next door,
[02:53.500]but things weren't like they were before.
[02:58.150]My teardrops fell like rain that day,
[03:02.930]when I hear what Joni had to say:
[03:11.310]"Jimmy, Jimmy please don't cry.
[03:16.690]You'll forget me by and by.
[03:20.950]It's been five years since you've been gone.
[03:25.890]and Jimmy I marry your best friend john