She's leaving home

C         Gmi        Dmi7 C7 F           Ami   D7 
Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins 
F                    G9 
silently closing her bedroom door 
F                         G9 
leaving the note that she hoped would say more. 
         C   Gmi           Dmi7 C7 
She goes downstairs to the kitchen 
F             Ami     D7 
clutching her hand kerchief 
F                   G9 
quietly turning the backdoor key 
F                       G9 
stepping outside she is free. 
C 
She (we gave her most of our lives) 
is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives) 
                  Gmi 
home (we gave her everything money could buy) 
Ami                      D7                  Ami 
she's leaving home after living alone for so many years 
bye bye. 
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 
bye bye. 
Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away 
waiting to keep the appointment she made 
meeting a man from the motor trade. 
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) 
something inside that was always denied for so many years 
bye bye. 
She's leaving home, bye bye!