She's Leaving Home

The Beatles

Tom: A

E         D          A/C#                C#m       F#7
Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
A                    B
Silently closing her bedroom door
A                         B
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more

         E   D            A/C#                 C#m         F#7
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching a handkerchief
A                   B
Quietly turning the backdoor key
A                       B
Stepping outside she is free

E
She (we gave her most of our lives)

Is leaving  (sacrificed most of our lives)
                   E/D
Home  (We gave her everything money could buy)
C#m                       F#7                 C#m        F#7
She is leaving home after living alone for so many years

E       D           A/C#                C#m          F#7
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown,
A                          B
Picks up the letter that's lying there.
A                     B
Standing alone at the top of the stairs,
           E        D           A/C#               C#m        F#7
She breaks down and cries to her husband Daddy our baby's gone.
A                         B7
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
A                        B7
How could she do this to me?
E
She (we never thought of ourselves)

Is leaving  (never a thought for ourselves)
                    E/D
Home  (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)
C#m                      F#7                  C#m       F#7
She's leaving home after living alone for so many years

E      D         A/C#                 C#m     F#7
Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
A                    B
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
A                      B
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)
                 E/D
Fun  (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)

C#m                       F#7                   C#m       F#7
Something inside that was always denied for so many years
C#m           F#7        A   E
She's leaving home   bye bye