She’s Leaving Home – The Beatles

W [E] ednesday [Bm] mor ning at five [F#m] o 'clock [C#m] as t he [F#m] day be gins 
[B] Silently closing her [A] bedr oom door 
Lea [B] ving the note that she [A] ho ped would say more 
Sh [E] e goes [Bm] downstai rs to the kitchen [F#m] clu tching a [C#m] handker chief 
[B] Qietly turning the [B9] backdoor key 
Ste [B] pping [A] out side she is [B7] f ree 
S [E] he (we gave her most of our lives) 
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives) 
Home (We gave her [F#m] everything money could) 
Sh [C#m] e is leaving home after [F#m] l iving alone for so [C#m] m any years 
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown, 
Picks up the letter that's lying there. 
Standing alone at the top of the stairs, 
She breaks down and cries to her husband Daddy our baby's gone. 
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly? 
How could she do this to me? 
She (we never thought of ourselves) 
Is leaving (never a thought for ourselves) 
Home (we struggled hard all our lives to get by) 
She's leaving home after living alone for so many years 
Fr [E] iday [Bm] morni ng at nine [F#m] o'c lock she is [C#m] far a way 
Wai [B] ting to keep the [A] appointmen t she made 
Meet [B] ing a man [A] fr om the motor [B7] tra de 
She (what did we do that was wrong?) 
Is having (we didn't know it was wrong) 
Fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy) 
Somethi [C#m] ng inside that [F#m] wa s always [C#m] denied for so many [F#m] y ears 
Sh [C#m] e's [F#m] leav ing [A] home bye by [E] e