D
A
Jimmy, please say you ll wait for me
A7
D
I ll grow up some day you ll see
D7
G
Saving all my kisses just for you
A
A7
D
Signed with love for ever true.
D
A
Joni was the girl who lived next door
D
I ve known her, I guess, ten years or more
D7
G
Joni wrote me a note one day
A
A7
D
And this is what she had to say
D
A
Jimmy, please say you ll wait for me
A7
D
I ll grow up some day you ll see
D7
G
Saving all my kisses just for you
A
A7
D
Signed with love for ever true.
D
A
Slowly I read her note once more
A7
D
Then I went over to the house next door
D7
G
Her teardrops fell like rain that day
A
A7
D
When I told Joni what I had to say.
D
A
Joni, Joni, please don t cry
A7
D
You ll forget me by and by
D7
G
You re just fifteen, I m twenty-two
A
A7
D
And Joni, I just can t wait for you.
D
A
Soon I left our little hometown
A7
D
Got me a job and tried to settle down
D7
G
But the words kept haunting my memory
A
A7
D
The words that Joni said to me
D
A
Jimmy, please say you ll wait for me
A7
D
I ll grow up some day you ll see
D7
G
Saving all my kisses just for you
A
A7
D
Signed with love for ever true.
D
A
I packed my clothes and I caught a plane
A7
D
I had to see Joni, I had to explain
D7
G
How my heart was filled with her memory
A
A7
D
And ask my Joni if she d marry me
D
A
I ran all the way to the house next door
A7
D
But things weren t like they were before.
D7
G
My teardrops fell like rain that day
A
A7
D
When I heard what Joni had to say
D
A
Jimmy, Jimmy, please don t cry
A7
D
You ll forget me by and by
D7
G
It’s been five years since you ve been gone
A
A7
D
Jimmy, I married your best friend John.