Ray Peterson – Tell Laura I Love Her chords

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Tell Laura I Love Her chords
Ray Peterson  1960 (Jeff Barry and Ben Raleigh)

Capo III

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G                    CLaura and Tommy were lovers
   G                       CHe wanted to give her everything
Em       Am            D              D7Flowers, presents, and most of all, a wedding ring

G                   C              He saw a sign for a stock car race
  G               CA thousand dollar prize it read
Em                    AmHe couldn't get Laura on the phone
   D              D7        (D/D/D/D7)So to her mother, Tommy said

G         Tell Laura I love her
             AmTell Laura I need her
             GTell Laura I may be late
     Am              D            GI've something to do, that cannot wait

   G                    CHe drove his car to the racing grounds
   G                CHe was the youngest driver there
    Em                    AmThe crowed roared as they started the race
           D                     D7         (D/D/D/D7)Around the track they drove at a deadly pace

G                 CNo one knows what happened that day
   G               COr how his car overturned in flames
    Em                          AmBut as they pulled him from the twisted wreck
         D                  D7         (D/D/D/D7)With his dying breath, they heard him say

G         Tell Laura I love her
             AmTell Laura I need her
           GTell Laura not to cry
   Am           D           GMy love for her  will never die

    G                   CNow in the chapel where Laura prays 
    G                   CFor her poor Tommy, who passed away
Em                       AmIt was just for Laura he lived and died
 D                          D7          (D/D/D/D7)Alone in the chapel she can hear him cry

G         Tell Laura I love her
             AmTell Laura I need her
           GTell Laura not to cry
   Am           D           GMy love for her  will never die

G         Tell Laura I love her
G         Tell Laura I love her .. .


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