“Jimmy, please say you‘ll wait for me
I’ll grow up some day you’ll see.
Saving all my kisses just for you.
Signed with love forever true.”

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

“Jimmy, please say you‘ll wait for me
I’ll grow up some day you’ll see.
Saving all my kisses just for you.
Signed with love forever true.”

Slowly I read her note once more
Then I went to the house next door
Her teardrop fell like rain that day
When I told Joni what I had to say

"Joni, Joni please don’t cry
You’ll forget me by and by
You’re just fifteen and I’m twenty-two
And Joni I just can’t wait for you.”

Soon I left out little home town
Got me a job and try to settle down
But these words keep on in my memory
These words that Joni said to me:

“Jimmy, please say you‘ll wait for me
I’ll grow up some day you’ll see.
Saving all my kisses just for you.
Signed with love forever true.”

I packed my clothes and I got a plane
And I had to see Joni and I had to explain
How my heart was filled with her memory
And let my Joni she marry me.

I ran on the way to the house next door
But they weren’t like they were before
My teardrop fell like rain that day
When I heard what Joni had to say

“Jimmy, Jimmy please don’t cry
you’ll forget me by and by
It’s been five years since you’ve been gone
Jimmy, I married your best friend John”