2008年1月20日 星期日

Don't Cry Joni

這首歌是鄉村歌手 Conway Twitty 與女兒 Joni Lee 合唱,收錄於1975年的 The very best of Conway Twitty 專輯中,描述一個15歲小女孩Joni與22歲大男孩Jimmy的苦澀初戀故事,淡淡哀傷的曲風聽起來卻也舒服:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZKfrqglKt8&feature=related

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Don't Cry Jony / Conway Twitty & Joni Lee

*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**

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 15 I'm 22
And Joni I just can't wait for you

Soon I left our little hometown
Got me a job and try to settle down
But these words kept pounding my memory
The words that Joni said to me **

I packed my clothes and I caught a plane
I had to see Joni I had to explain
How my heart was filled with her memories
And ask my Joni if she'd marry me

I run all the way to the house next door
But things weren't like they were before
My teardrops 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've married your best friend John