Conway Twitty – Dont Cry Joni (Guitar)

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D                       A
"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me,

A                 D
I'll grow up someday you'll see,

D                     G
Saving all my kisses just for you,

A                          D
Signed with love, forever true."

D                     A
Joni was the girl who lived next door,

A                      D
I've known her I guess ten years or more,

D         (A)  G
Joni wrote me a note one day,

A                            D
And this is what she had to say:

D                       A
"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me,

A                 D
I'll grow up someday you'll see,

D                     G
Saving all my kisses just for you,

A                           D
Signed with love, forever true."

D                   A
Slowly I read her note once more,

A                        D
Then I went over to the house next door,

D                  (A)   G
Her teardrops fell like rain that day,

A                               D
When I told Joni what I had to say:

D               A
"Joni, Joni, please don't cry

A                 D
You'll forget me by and by,

D           (A)  G
You're just 15; I'm 22,

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

D                  A
Soon I left our little home town,

A                           D
Got me a job and tried to settle down,

D                       (A)    G
But these words kept haunting my memory,

A                            D
The words that Joni said to me:

D                       A
"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me,

A                 D
I'll grow up someday you'll see,

D                     G
Saving all my kisses just for you,

A                           D
Signed with love, forever true."

D                       A
I packed my clothes and I caught a plane,

A                     D
I had to see Joni; I had to explain,

D                       (A)   G
How my heart was filled with her memory,

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

D                       A
I ran all the way to the house next door,

A                             D
But things weren't like they were before,

D                       (A)   G
My teardrops fell like rain that day,

A                            D
When I heard what Joni had to say:

D                A
"Jimmy, Jimmy, please don't cry,

A              D
You'll forget me by and by,

D                     (A)    G
It's been five years since you've been gone,

A                            D
Jimmy, I married your best friend John."