1. [C] Jimmy, please say you’ll [G] wait for me
I’ll grow up some [C] day you’ll see
Saving all my kisses [F] just for you
[G] Signed with love for ever [C] true
[C] Joni was the girl who [G] lived next door
I ve known her, I guess, ten [C] years or more
Joni wrote me a [F] note one day
[G] And this is what she had to [C] say
2. [C] Jimmy, please say you’ll [G] wait for me
I’ll grow up some [C] day you’ll see
Saving all my kisses [F] just for you
[G] Signed with love for ever [C] true
[C] Slowly I read her [G] note once more
Then I went over to the [C] house next door
Her teardrops fell like [F] rain that day
When [G] I told Joni what I had to [C] say
3. [C] Joni, Joni, [G] please don t cry
You’ll forget me [C] by and by
You’rejust fifteen, I’m [F] twenty-two
And [G] Joni, I just can’t wait for [C] you.
[C] Soon I left our [G] little hometown
Got me a job and tried to [C] settle down
But these words kept on my [F] memory
[G] The words that Joni said to [C] me
4. [C] Jimmy, please say you’ll [G] wait for me
I’ll grow up some [C] day you’ll see
Saving all my kisses [F] just for you
[G] Signed with love for ever [C] true.
I [C] packed my clothes and I [G] caught a plane
I had to see Joni, I [C] had to explain
How my heart was filled with [F] her memory
[G] And ask my Joni if she’d marry [C] me
5. I [C] ran all the way to the [G] house next door
But things weren’t like they [C] were before
My teardrops fell like [F] rain that day
When [G] I heard what Joni had to [C] say.
[C] Jimmy, Jimmy [G] please don’t cry
You’ll forget me [C] by and by
It’s been five years since [F] you’ve been gone
[G] Jimmy, I married your best friend [C] John.