琼妮别哭Don't Cry Joni

这是一首悲伤的歌曲，十五岁的少女喜欢上了隔壁家的大哥哥，写信让他等她长大，但大哥哥已经二十二岁了，迫不及待地想离开家乡去打拼，于是婉拒了小女孩。多年过去了，男孩怎么也忘不了小女孩对他说的话，收拾行囊回到家乡，遗憾地发现小女孩已嫁给了自己最好的朋友。

Don't Cry Joni琼妮别哭

-Conway Twitty, Joni Lee

-梅三思 译

Joni was a girl who lived next door.

琼妮是住在隔壁的女孩

I've known her I guess ten years or more.

我认识她已十多年

Joni wrote me a note one day,

有一天琼妮给我留了张字条

And this is what she had to say:

她在里面这样写：

(Joni)

Jimmy please say you'll wait for me

吉米你一定要等着我

I'll grow up someday you'll see

总有一天我会长大

Saving all my kisses just for you

我把所有的吻都留着给你

Signed with love

以爱之名签署

forever true

永远是真的

(Jimmy)

Slowly I read her note once more

慢慢的，我又读了一遍她的字条

Then I went over to the house next door

然后就来到了隔壁的房子

Her tear drops fell like rain that day

那天，她的眼泪像雨点一样落下来

When I told Joni what I had to say

当不我得不告诉她这些话

(Jimmy)

Joni, Joni please don't cry

琼妮，琼妮，你别哭

You'll forget me by and by

你慢慢的就会忘记我

You're just fifteen

你才十五岁

I'm twenty two

而我已经二十二了

And Joni I just can't wait for you

琼妮我等不了你这么久

(Jimmy)

Soon I left our little home town

很快我就离开了家乡的小镇

Got me a job and tried to settle down

找了份工作想要安顿下来

But these words kept haunting my memory

但那些话始终让我难以忘怀

The words that Joni said to me

琼妮告诉我的那些话

(Joni)

Jimmy please say you'll wait for me

吉米你一定要等着我

I'll grow up someday you'll see

总有一天我会长大

Saving all my kisses just for you

我把所有的吻都留着给你

Signed with love

以爱之名签署

forever true

永远是真的

(Jimmy)

I packed my clothes

我收拾好自己的行囊

And I caught a plane

坐上了飞机

I had to see Joni

我一定得见见琼妮

I had to explain

我必须解释

How my heart was filled

我的心中充满了

With her memory

关于她的回忆

And ask my Joni if she'd marry me

我一定要问她愿不愿意嫁给我

(Jimmy)

I ran all the way

我一路奔跑

To the house next door

来到了隔壁的房子

But things weren't like they were before

但一切都已不再像从前

My tear drops fell like rain that day

我的眼泪像雨点一样落下来

When I heard what Joni had to say

当琼妮不得不告诉我这些话

(Joni)

Jimmy, Jimmy please don't cry

吉米吉米，你别哭

You'll forget me by and by

你慢慢就会忘记我

It's been five years since you've been gone

你离开了已经整整五年

Jimmy I married your best friend John

我已经嫁给了你最好的朋友约翰

歌曲背景：这一首男女对唱歌曲，是1975年Conway Twitty与他的女儿Joni Lee合唱的，出自专辑“The very best of Conway Twitty”。父女俩你一段我一段对唱，扮演那个纯真的小女孩Joni和隔壁家的大哥哥Jimmy, 唱出很质朴的很美好却又伤感的故事。

Conway Twitty（康威崔提）是美国著名歌手，在其漫长的职业生涯中，他触及了流行音乐的各个方面：从乡村摇滚到蓝调，摇摆乐到迪克西兰爵士乐，从R&B到福音。

*这首歌还曾被改编成邓丽君演唱的中文歌曲《情人不要哭》~