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Thread #71012   Message #1213213
Posted By: M.Ted
23-Jun-04 - 07:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Don't Cry Joni (Conway Twitty)
Subject: Lyr Add: DON'T CRY JONI (Conway Twitty)
I think this is what you want, Sol--


DON'T CRY JONI

By: Conway Twitty and Joni Lee

Female:

Jimmy please say you'll wait for me.
I'll grow up some day you'll see.
Saving all my kisses just for you.
Signed with love forever true.

Male:

Joni was a 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:

Female:

"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me.
I'll grow up some day you'll see.
Saving all my kisses just for you.
Signed with love forever true."

Male:

Slowly I read her note once more.
Then I went over to the house next door.
Her teardrops 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:

Female:

"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me.
I'll grow up some day you'll see.
Saving all my kisses just for you.
Signed with love forever true."

Male:

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 teardrops fell like rain that day,
when I hear what Joni had to say:

Female:

"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."


You can listen to it here Don't Cry Joni