conway & joni

我必須坦承，我很喜歡聽美國鄉村歌曲，不管是鄉村藍調、鄉村節奏或是鄉村民謠，由於旋律自然流暢，有許多都非常好聽。而今天要來介紹的這一首，不知是鄉村什麼，或許應該算是鄉村情歌吧。哈哈哈！

其實在情歌中常常會出現年齡不相稱的情況，記得我以前很喜歡的一首《Come back when you grow up 》就是。而這首《Don`t Cry Joni》，也先是男的嫌女的太小，而不願接受對方的感情，等到後來發現自己其實早已愛上對方想回頭時，已經來……不……及啦！

唱這首歌的Conway Twitty(康威特維提)是美國知名的鄉村歌手，曾有40首歌曲奪得過鄉村歌曲排行榜的第一名，但或因當年台灣引進他的歌曲不多，我對他也並不熟悉。

還有趣的是，在歌曲中與Conway Twitty對唱的，是他的女兒JoniLee。

Jimmy please say you'll wait for me
I'll grow up someday you'll see
Savin' 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 10 years or more
Joni wrote me a note one day
And this is what she had to say

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

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 fifteen I'm twenty two
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 her words kept haunting my memory
The words that Joni said to me

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

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 memory
And ask my Joni if she'd marry me

I ran 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 married your best friend John.