Don't cry, Joni
      Conway Twitty & Joni Lee


*Jimmy please say you'll wait for me
I'll grow up someday 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 fifteen and I'm twenty-two
And Joni I just can't wait for you"


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

I packed my clothes and I caught the plane
I had to see Joni, I had to explain
How my heart was filled with her memory
And that's 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......"
瓊妮,別哭
      康威崔提 & 瓊妮李

吉米,請告訴我你會等我
總有一天我會長大
把我全部的吻都留給你
並且簽上"永遠的摯愛"


瓊妮是位住在隔壁的女孩
我認識她大概有十幾年了
有一天,瓊妮寫了張紙條給我
這就是她想說的話……

我再次慢慢的讀著她的紙條
然後,我走到隔壁房子
那一天,她淚如雨下
當我告訴瓊妮我心底的話

" 瓊妮!瓊妮,不要哭
慢慢的,妳會把我忘掉
妳才十五歲,而我已二十二歲
瓊妮,我沒辦法等妳 "


不久以後,我離開了小鎮
找到一份工作,試著安定下來
但那些話在我記憶裡揮之不去
那些瓊妮告訴我的話

我收拾好衣物,搭上班機
我得去見瓊妮,向她解釋
我的心裡縈繞著關於她的回憶……
如果瓊妮能嫁給我,那再好不過了

我飛奔到隔壁
但景物已全非
那一天我的淚水像雨水般滴落
當我聽到瓊妮所說的話……

" 吉米!吉米,不要哭
你慢慢的會把我忘掉
你離開以後,已經過了五年
吉米,我已經嫁給你最好的朋友--約翰 "

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回到西洋歌曲英漢對照

 

 出生於 1933 年,Conway Twitty 康威崔提以搖滾歌手身份於 50 年代出道。

 60 年代尾聲他改變歌路,轉攻鄉村歌曲,開啟了個人輝煌燦爛的演藝事業。據統計,他在 70 到 80 年代之間,共有四十首歌曾在鄉村歌曲榜得到排行冠軍,其中多首和鄉村歌后 Loreatta Lynn 羅莉塔林合唱的歌曲更是膾炙人口,為兩人獲得許多獎項。

 這樣一位在美國鄉村音樂呼風喚雨的人物,知名度卻僅限於美國境內。在台灣,聽過他的歌的人肯定很少," Don't cry, Joni 別哭,瓊妮 "是他的歌曲中少數會被選入老歌合輯的作品。

 " Don't cry, Joni "是一首平易近人的敘事歌曲,講了一個落花有意、流水無情的小故事,由康威崔提和瓊妮李分飾故事中的男女主角,但實際生活中,兩人的關係是一對父女,瓊妮李的本名是 Joni Lee Jenkins。

 1975 那一年,瓊妮李年滿十六歲,看到父親在演藝事業上的風光成就,她再次向父親康威崔提表達想當藝人的念頭。拗不過愛女的撒嬌,康威崔提一口答應,條件是必需由父親帶她入行,名為保護實則管束。

 康威崔提拿出一首幾年前寫好的男女對唱曲,由他和女兒完成錄音。當時康威崔提剛錄好一首新單曲" Touch the hand ",這首" Don't cry, Joni "就順理成章放在 B 面。

 唱片公司發行單曲唱片,A 面通常為主打歌,B 面被視為附贈歌曲。" Touch the hand "很快的為康威崔提再添一首鄉村冠軍曲,沒想到 B 面的" Don't cry, Joni "竟受到歌迷與電台 DJ 的歡迎,不久以後,也打進鄉村排行榜,最高名次是第四名。

 康威崔提的三個子女後來均嘗試過發展歌唱事業,但最終只有瓊妮李的這首" Don't cry, Joni "獲得商業上的成功,而且是靠父親康威崔提的庇蔭。