• • • • Jimmy, please

say you'll wait for me

I'll grow up

someday, you'll see

Savin' all my kisses

just for you

Signed with love

forever true

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

Savin' 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 tear drops 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

someday, you'll see

Savin' 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 tear drops 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