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 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 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 hometown 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 someday 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 heard 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 jimmy i married your best friend john
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