{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":203815,"song":"Dont Cry Joni","artist":"Conway Twitty","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11219057-dont-cry-joni-chords-by-conway-twitty/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/203815?type=chord","rating":4.96863,"votes":242,"content":"[tab][ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'll grow up someday you'll see,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSaving all my kisses just for you,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSigned with love, forever true.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nJoni was the girl who lived next door,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI've known her I guess ten years or more,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]         (A)  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJoni wrote me a note one day,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd this is what she had to say:[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'll grow up someday you'll see,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSaving all my kisses just for you,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSigned with love, forever true.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSlowly I read her note once more,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThen I went over to the house next door,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  (A)   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHer teardrops fell like rain that day,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I told Joni what I had to say:[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\"Joni, Joni, please don't cry[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou'll forget me by and by,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]           (A)  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou're just 15; I'm 22,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd Joni, I just can't wait for you.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSoon I left our little home town,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nGot me a job and tried to settle down,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                       (A)    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut these words kept haunting my memory,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe words that Joni said to me:[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\"Jimmy please say you'll wait for me,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'll grow up someday you'll see,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSaving all my kisses just for you,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSigned with love, forever true.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI packed my clothes and I caught a plane,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI had to see Joni; I had to explain,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                       (A)   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHow my heart was filled with her memory,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd ask my Joni if she'd marry me.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI ran all the way to the house next door,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut things weren't like they were before,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                       (A)   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy teardrops fell like rain that day,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I heard what Joni had to say:[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\"Jimmy, Jimmy, please don't cry,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou'll forget me by and by,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                     (A)    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's been five years since you've been gone,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nJimmy, I married your best friend John.\"[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["D","A","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}