Think of Laura (1983)    (video)

 

C                    - G              F    - C - F                     - F

    Hey Laura,       Laura, hey,             hey, Laura,        Laura.

 

     C                               G                         F     - Am

1.      Every once in a while I’d see you smile,

                      F                    C

    and she’d turn my day around.

                                G                                          Dm

    A girl with those eyes could stare through the lies

           Am                     F              G

    and see what your heart was saying.

 

A                  E              - F#m             F#  

    Think of Laura, but            laugh, don’t cry,

Bm                    E                A            E

 I know she’d want it that way, hey hey.

                 - A                 E      - F#m              F#

When you       think of Laura,            laugh, don’t cry,

Bm                   E                 A

 I know she’d want it that way.

 

    C                        G                                F

2.     A friend of a friend, a friend till the end,

     Am           F                       C

    that’s the kind of girl she was,

                   G                 - F   Am         F                    G    

    taken away so young,       taken away without a warning.

 

+  CHORUS

 

  F#m     Bm        - E                     A          D        E         A

+       I know you       and you’re here, in every day we live,

F#m   Bm               - E                    A     D                                E      - E7

     I know her and,      well, she’s here, I can feel her when I sing.

 

    C                     - G                         F    Am         F                      C  

3.      Hey, Laura,    where are you now, are you far away from here ?

                  G                               Dm  - Am  F               G          A

    I don’t think so, I think you’re here,         taking our tears away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A                  E              - F#m             F#  

    Think of Laura, but            laugh, don’t cry,

Bm                     E               A            E

 I know she’d want it that way, hey hey.

                 - A                 E      - F#m              F#

When you       think of Laura,            laugh, don’t cry,

Bm                    E                A

 I know she’d want it that way.

 

              E          Bm            E                A

+  Hey, hey, I know she’d want it that way.

               E       - F#m                         Bm             E                A

    Hey, Laura,            hey, Laura, I know you’d want it that way.

               E       - F#m                         Bm             E                A

    Hey, Laura,            hey, Laura, I know you’d want it that way.

               A

    Hey, Laura.

 

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (Christopher Cross)