6 - She's leaving home
She's leaving home ( Beatles )
E Bm F#m C#m F#m
Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
B11 A
Silently closing her bedroom door
B11 A
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
E Bm F#m C#m
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching a handkerchief
B11 B9
Quietly turning the backdoor key
B11 A B7
Stepping outside she is free
E
She (we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)
F#m
Home (We gave her everything money could buy)
C#m F#m C#m
She is leaving home after living alone for so many years
E Bm F#m C#m F#m
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown,
B11 A
Picks up the letter that's lying there.
B11 A
Standing alone at the top of the stairs,
E Bm F#m C#m
She breaks down and cries to her husband Daddy our baby's gone.
B11 B9
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
B11 A B7
How could she do this to me?
E
She (we never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (never a thought for ourselves)
F#m
Home (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)
C#m F#m C#m
She's leaving home after living alone for so many years
E Bm F#m C#m
Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
B11 A
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
B11 A B7
Meeting a man from the motor trade
E
She (what did we do that was wrong?)
Is having (we didn't know it was wrong)
F#m
Fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)
C#m F#m C#m F#m
Something inside that was always denied for so many years
C#m F#m A E
She's leaving home bye bye
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