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Ernie Sigley & Denise Drysdale sing "Don't Cry, Joanie" from The Don Lane Show on June 8, 1981.
Transcript
00:00Jimmy, say you'll wait for me I'll grow up, someday you'll see
00:18Saving all my kisses just for you Signed with love, forever true
00:31Joanie was the girl who lived next door I've known, I guess, Joanie ten years or more
00:40Joanie wrote me a note one day And this is what she had to say
00:52Jimmy, please say you'll wait for me I'll grow up, someday you'll see
01:01Saving all my kisses just for you Signed with love, forever true
01:14Slowly I read her note once more Then I went over to the house next door
01:23Her teardrops fell like rain that day When I told Joanie what I had to say
01:36Joanie, Joanie, please don't cry You'll forget me by and by
01:45You're just fifteen and I'm twenty-two Joanie, I just can't wait for you
01:58Soon I left our little hometown Got me a job and had to settle down
02:06But these words kept hard in my memory The words that Joanie said to me
02:19Jimmy, please say you'll wait for me I'll grow up, someday you'll see
02:28Saving all my kisses just for you Signed with love, forever true
02:40I packed my clothes and I caught a train Had to see Joanie, I had to explain
02:49How my heart was filled with her memory And asked my Joanie if she'd marry me
03:02I ran all the way to the house next door But things weren't like they were before
03:11My teardrops fell like rain that day When I heard what Joanie had to say
03:24Jimmy, Jimmy, please don't cry You'll forget me by and by
03:33It's been five years since you've been gone Jimmy, I married your best friend, Joanie
03:48Thank you very much.

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