Measure: 4/4
|./. |: Repeat the previous Measure and Chord of 4-counts.
INTRO: |A |./. |
VERSE 1:
A |D
Laura and Tommy were lovers.
|A |D |
He wanted to give her everything.
C#m |D |E |E7 |
Flowers, presents, and most of all a wedding ring.
VERSE 2:
A |D |
He saw a sign for a stock-car race.
A |D
A thousand dollar prize it read.
|C#m |D
He couldn’t get Laura on the phone,
|E |E7 |
so to her mother Tommy said.
CHORUS:
A |./. |./. |Bm |
Tell Laura, I love her, tell Laura, I need her.
./. |A |Bm |
Tell Laura, I may be late, I have something to do,
E7 |A |./. |
that cannot wait.
VERSE 3:
A |D |
He drove his car to the racing ground.
A |D |
He was the youngest driver there.
|C#m |D
The crowd roared as they started the race.
|E |E7 |
Round the track they drove at a deadly pace.
VERSE 4:
A |D |
No-one knows what happened that day.
A |D
How his car over-turned in flames.
|C#m |D
But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck,
|E |E7 |
with his dying breath, they heard him say.
CHORUS:
A |./. |./. |Bm |
Tell Laura, I love her, tell Laura, I need her.
./. |A |Bm |
Tell Laura not to cry, my love for her
E7 |A |./. |
will never die.
VERSE 5:
A |D |
Now in the chapel, where Laura prays,
A |D
for her Tommy, who passed away.
|C#m |D
It was just for Laura, he lived and died.
|E |E7 |
A-lone in the chapel she can hear him cry.
CHORUS:
A |./. |./. |Bm |
Tell Laura, I love her, tell Laura, I need her.
./. |A |Bm |
Tell Laura not to cry, my love for her
E7 |A |./. |
will never die.
OUTRO (Fade Out):
A |./. |./. |./. |
Tell Laura, I love her, tell Laura, I need her.
