[ti:Don't Cry Joni] [ar:Conway Twitty & Joni Lee] [al:] [00:11.96]Don't Cry Joni [00:12.68]Conway Twitty & Joni Lee [00:13.06] [00:13.45]Jimmy please say you'll wait for me [00:17.46]I'll grow up some day you'll see [00:22.53]Saving all my kisses just for you [00:28.22]Signed with love forever true [00:33.95] [00:36.84]Joni was the girl who lived next door [00:41.72]I've known her I guess ten years or more [00:46.95]Joni wrote me a note one day [00:52.23]And this is what she had to say [01:01.50] [01:02.13]Jimmy please say you'll wait for me [01:06.48]I'll grow up some day you'll see [01:11.43]Saving all my kisses just for you [01:17.17]Signed with love forever true [01:22.49] [01:25.66]Slowly I read her note once more [01:31.04]Then I went over to the house next door [01:35.95]Her teardrops fell like rain that day [01:41.02]When I told Joni what I had to say [01:47.53] [01:50.27]Joni Joni please don't cry [01:55.18]You'll forget me by and by [02:00.49]You're just 15 I'm 22 [02:05.61]And Joni I just can't wait for you [02:11.01] [02:16.21]Soon I left our little hometown [02:20.18]Got me a job and try to settle down [02:25.63]But these words kept pounding my memory [02:29.83]The words that Joni said to me [02:35.48] [02:39.25]Jimmy please say you'll wait for me [02:47.01]I'll grow up some day you'll see [02:49.36]Saving all my kisses just for you [02:55.01]Signed with love forever true [03:00.48] [03:03.28]I packed my clothes and I caught a plane [03:08.83]I had to see Joni I had to explain [03:13.24]How my heart was filled with her memories [03:19.22]And ask my Joni if she'd marry me [03:27.73]I run all the way to the house next door [03:32.83]But things weren't like they were before [03:37.50]My teardrops fell like rain that day [03:42.86]When I heard what Joni had to say [03:51.46] [03:52.18]Jimmy Jimmy please don't cry [03:57.81]You'll forget me by and by [04:03.82]It's been five years since you've been gone [04:07.17]Jimmy I've married your best friend Jone