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."