슬픈 노래. Don't Cry Joni

유명한 컨츄리 가수인 Conway Twitty가 Joni Lee와 듀엣으로 1975년에 발표한 Don't Cry Joni라는 노래가 있습니다. 익숙한 멜로디에 쉬운 가사를 가진 노래인데, 듣고 나면 쓸쓸한 여운이 남는 노래입니다.

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Don't Cry Joni

Joni:
Jimmy please say you'll wait for me
I'll grow up someday you'll see
Saving all my kisses just for you
Signed with love forever true

Jimmy:
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

Joni:
Jimmy please say you'll wait for me
I'll grow up someday you'll see
Saving all my kisses just for you
Signed with love forever true

Jimmy:
Slowly I read her note once more
Then I went over to the house next door
Her tear-drops 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 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

Joni:
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

Jimmy:
I packed my clothes and I caught a plane
And I had to see Joni. I had to explain,
How my heart was filled with her memory
And ask my Joni if she marry me

I ran all the way to the house next door
But things weren't like they were before
My tear-drops fell like rain that day
When I heard what Joni had to say

Joni:
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