Chords for Don't Cry Joni

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