"Jimmy, please say you'll wait for me
Got me a job and tried to settle down
I'll grow up someday, you'll see
I packed my clothes and I caught a plane
It's been five years since you've been gone
Signed with love, forever true"
My tear drops fell like rain that day
When I told Joni what I had to say
When I heard what Joni had to say
How my heart was filled with her memory
Slowly I read her note once more
"Jimmy, Jimmy, please don't cry
I went over to the house next door
But these words kept haunting my memory
You're just fifteen, I'm twenty-two
And Joni I just cant wait for you"
"Joni, Joni, please don't cry
"Jimmy, please say you'll wait for me
Savin' all my kisses just for you
I ran all the way to the house next door
And ask my Joni if she'd marry me
Savin' all my kisses just for you
Had to see Joni, I had to explain
Her tear drops fell like rain that day
Things weren't like they were before
Joni wrote me a note one day
And this is what she had to say
You'll forget me by and by
I'll grow up someday, you'll see
You'll forget me by and by
Soon I left our little home town
Signed with love, forever true"
The words that Joni said to me
