Hello this is Joanie / This is Joney / This is Jonie (The Telephone Answering Machine Song) by Paul Evans (Spring 1978) Lachlan's Note: Another one that took ages to track down. Paul Evans At http://www.geocities.com/englshkid/paulevans.htm Hello this is Joani / This is Joney / This is Jonie (The Telephone Answering Machine Song) by Paul Evans (Spring 1978) "Hello this is Joanie (The Telephone Answering Machine Song)" Hello, this is Joanie I'm sorry that I'm not home But if you leave me your name and number I promise soon as I get in I'll call Joanie came over to my house last night Drank a little too much red and we got into a fight She said "I'm leaving" and I let her go alone I felt so damn bad this morning I reached right for the phone I called her right away To beg her to forgive The phone rang once, the phone rang twice And then I heard her say Hello, this is Joanie I'm sorry that I'm not home But if you leave me your name and number I promise soon as I get in I'll call "Joanie I'm sorry and I feeling all so small" That was the message I left and I waited for her call I waited with a sinking feeling in my heart Not knowing if she forgive me was tearing me apart I couldn't go on this way I had to call again The phone rang once, the phone rang twice And then I heard her say Hello, this is Joanie Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh I'm sorry that I'm not home But if you leave me your name and number Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh I promise soon as I get in I'll call My phone rang and my heart sang my baby's called at last Instead it was a friend who said that Joanie's car had crashed I never should have let her drive alone angry from my place I'd never hold her again and kiss that funny face But still there was a way to hear her voice The phone rang once, the phone rang twice And then I heard her say Hello, this is Joanie I'm sorry that I'm not home I'm so sorry for me If you leave me your name and number I promise soon as I get in I'll call Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Hello, this is Joanie Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh I'm sorry that I'm not home But if you leave me your name and number Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh I promise soon as I get in I'll call