Joni was a 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 over to the house next door.
Her teardrops 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, I m twenty-two,
and Joni I just can t wait for you."
Soon I left our little home town.
Got me a job and tried to settle down,
but these words kept haunting my memory,
the 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."