Silent Ground

Dm C Dm Dm C Dm I was a lad of twenty three, when I first met sweet Laura Lee Gm Dm A Dm She had just turned twenty two, wed to a man she thought she knew Dm C Dm Turned out to be the vicious kind, she longed to leave him far behind Gm Dm A Dm She longed for love so desperately, and in despair she turned to me A Dm Dm C Dm Well we fell hard and we fell fast, we knew the secret would never last Gm Dm A Dm She asked her man to set her free, he said you’ll die before you leave Dm C Dm I told her that we’d run away, but he caught me alone that day Gm Dm A Dm Crept up on me from behind, and left me lying ‘neath the pines Gm Dm A Dm Oh my Laura can you hear me, though my lips make not a sound G C Dm A Dm I still dream of you sweet Laura, as I sleep in silent ground Dm C Dm Gm Dm A Dm Dm C Dm The lawmen found him in the hills, they brought him in alive but still Gm Dm A Dm He said his work was not complete, while Laura’s heart still held a beat Dm C Dm There was no one who’d go his bail, so one night he broke out of jail Gm Dm A Dm He came to find his Laura Lee, but she sent him where he sent me A Dm Dm C Dm The jury called her justified, and now she comes to me at night Gm Dm A Dm And as her tears fall on my grave, I can hear her as she prays Gm Dm A Dm Oh my Laura can you hear me though my lips make not a sound G C Dm A Dm I still dream of you sweet Laura, as I sleep in silent ground G C Dm A Dm I still dream of you sweet Laura, as I sleep in silent ground A Dm