Don?t Cry Joni
Conway Twitty

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


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Joni was the girl who lived next door I?ve known her, I guess, ten years or more
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Joni wrote me a note one day and this is what she had to say


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


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Slowly I read her note once more then I went over to the house next door
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Her teardrops fell like rain that day when I told Joni what I had to say.


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Joni, Joni, please don t cry you ll forget me by and by
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You re just fifteen, I m twenty-two And Joni, I just can t wait for you.




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Soon I left our little hometown got me a job and tried to settle down
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But the words kept haunting my memory the words that Joni said to me



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


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I packed my clothes and I caught a plane I had to see Joni, I had to explain
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How my heart was filled with her memory and ask my Joni if she?d marry me


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I ran all the way to the house next-door but things weren?t t like they were before.
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My teardrops fell like rain that day when I heard what Joni had to say


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Jimmy, Jimmy, please don t cry you ll forget me by and by
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It s been five years since you?ve been gone Jimmy; I married your best friend John.