

| E | Bm | F#m | C#m | F# | |
| Wednesday | morning at | five o'clock as the | day begins |
| A | B11 | |
| Silently closing her | bedroom door |
| A | B11 | |
| Leaving the note that she | hoped would say more |
| E | Bm | F#m | C#m | F# | |
| She goes down | stairs to the | kitchen clutching a | handkerchief |
| A | B11 | |
| Quietly turning the | backdoor key |
| A | A | B7 | |
| Stepping out | side she is | free |
| E | |
| She (we gave her most of our lives) |
| Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives) |
| Bm | |
| Home (We gave her | everything money could) |
| C#m | F# | C#m | F# | |
| She is leaving home after | living alone for so | many 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 |
| E | Bm | F#m | C#m | F# | |
| Friday | morning at | nine o'clock she is | far away |
| A | B11 | |
| Waiting to keep the a | ppointment she made |
| A | A | B7 | |
| 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) |
| C#m | F# | C#m | F# | |
| Something inside that was | always denied for so | many year | s |
| C#m | F# | A | E | |
| She's leaving | home bye | bye |
| Chords used: |
| A x02220 |
| Bm X24432 |
| B11 x22222 |
| B7 x21202 |
| C#m x46654 |
| E 022100 |
| F#m | 244222 | |
| Any corrections, additions, send them to, |
| Mende Joveski |
| 9605705j@bunyip.ph.rmit.edu.au |