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."