She's Leaving Home

	  		E         Bm7        F#m7                C#m7       F#7
Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins 
A/B                   B7(9)
Silently closing her bedroom door
A/B                       B7(9)
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
 
         Emaj7   Bm7           F#m7                C#m7          F#7
She goes down----stairs to the kitchen clutching a handkerchief
A/B                 B7(9)
Quietly turning the backdoor key
A/B                     B7(9)
Stepping outside she is free
 
E
She (we gave her most of our lives)
 
Is leaving  (sacrificed most of our lives)
                    Dmaj7
Home  (We gave her everything money could)
C#m7                      F#7                 C#m7          F#7
She is leaving home after living alone for so many years
 
E       Bm7          F#m7                C#m7          F#7
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown,
A/B                        B7(9)
Picks up the letter that's lying there.
A/B                   B7(9)
Standing alone at the top of the stairs,
           Emaj7     Bm7          F#m7             C#m7          F#7
She breaks down and cries to her husband Daddy our baby's gone.
A/B                        B7(9)
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
A/B                      B7(9)
How could she do this to me?
E
She (we never thought of ourselves)
 
Is leaving  (never a thought for ourselves)
                    Dmaj7 
Home  (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)
C#m7                      F#7                             F#7
She's leaving home after living alone for so many years
 
 
E       Bm7       F#m7                C#m7        F#7
Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
A/B                  B7(9)   
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
A/B                     B7(9)
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)
                     Dmaj7
Fun  (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)
 
C#m7                       F#7                 C#m7        F#7
Something inside that was always denied for so many years
C#m7          F#7        Amaj7     E
She's leaving home  bye  bye

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correction by Manuel Llosa : [email protected]