Don’t cry Joni

1. [D] Jimmy, please say you'll [A] wait for me

I'll grow up some [D] day you'll see

Saving all my kisses [G] just for you

[A] Signed with love for ever [D] true

[D] Joni was the girl who [A] lived next door

I ve known her, I guess, ten [D] years or more

Joni wrote me a [G] note one day

[A] And this is what she had to [D] say

2. [D] Jimmy, please say you'll [A] wait for me

I'll grow up some [D] day you'll see

Saving all my kisses [G] just for you

[A] Signed with love for ever [D] true

[D] Slowly I read her [A] note once more

Then I went over to the [D] house next door

Her teardrops fell like [G] rain that day

When [A] I told Joni what I had to [D] say

3. [D] Joni, Joni, [A] please don t cry

You'll forget me [D] by and by

You'rejust fifteen, I'm [G] twenty-two

And [A] Joni, I just can't wait for [D] you.

[D] Soon I left our [A] little hometown

Got me a job and tried to [D] settle down

But these words kept on my [G] memory

[A] The words that Joni said to [D] me

4. [D] Jimmy, please say you'll [A] wait for me

I'll grow up some [D] day you'll see

Saving all my kisses [G] just for you

[A] Signed with love for ever [D] true.

I [D] packed my clothes and I [A] caught a plane

I had to see Joni, I [D] had to explain

How my heart was filled with [G] her memory

[A] And ask my Joni if she'd marry [D] me

5. I [D] ran all the way to the [A] house next door

But things weren't like they [D] were before

My teardrops fell like [G] rain that day

When [A] I heard what Joni had to [D] say.

[D] Jimmy, Jimmy [A] please don’t cry

You'll forget me [D] by and by

It's been five years since [G] you've been gone

[A] Jimmy, I married your best friend [D] John