[00:00.000] 作词 : Conway Twitty[00:01.000] 作曲 : Conway Twitty[00:10.400]Joni was a girl who lived next door.[00:14.880]I've known her I guess ten years or more.[00:19.840]Joni wrote me a note one day,[00:24.020]And this is what she had to say:[00:32.680]"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me.[00:38.110]I'll grow up some day you'll see.[00:42.150]Saving all my kisses just for you.[00:47.430]Signed with love forever true."[00:55.300]Slowly I read her note once more.[01:00.020]Then I went over to the house next door.[01:04.620]Her teardrops fell like rain that day,[01:09.420]when I told Joni what I had to say:[01:18.010]"Joni, Joni please don't cry.[01:22.880]You'll forget me by and by.[01:27.550]You're just fifteen, I'm twenty-two,[01:32.200]and Joni I just can't wait for you."[01:40.400]Soon I left our little home town.[01:45.550]Got me a job and tried to settle down,[01:49.680]but these words kept haunting my memory,[01:54.700]the words that Joni said to me:[02:03.430]"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me.[02:08.820]I'll grow up some day you'll see.[02:12.800]Saving all my kisses just for you.[02:18.300]Signed with love forever true."[02:26.180]I packed my clothes and I caught a plane.[02:31.410]I had to see Joni, I had to explain,[02:35.580]How my heart was filled with her memory,[02:40.490]and ask my Joni if she'd marry me.[02:48.740]I ran all the way to the house next door,[02:53.500]but things weren't like they were before.[02:58.150]My teardrops fell like rain that day,[03:02.930]when I heard what Joni had to say:[03:11.310]"Jimmy, Jimmy please don't cry.[03:16.690]You'll forget me by and by.[03:20.950]It's been five years since you've been gone.[03:25.890]and Jimmy I marry your best friend john