The Beatles - Shes leaving home
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Suggested shapes:
0|2|2|1|0|0 E x|0|2|2|2|0 A x|4|6|6|5|4 C#m
0|2|0|1|0|0 E7 2|4|4|2|2|2 F#m x|4|6|4|5|4 C#m7
0|4|2|1|0|0 E6 2|4|2|2|2|2 F#m7 2|4|4|3|2|2 F#
x|2|2|1|0|0 E/B x|2|1|2|0|2 B7
Chords in brackets can be played or not, whichever sounds better.
For the choruses, you can hang on an E chord, or try the ones I have written, again,
whichever sounds better. Also, try swapping the bracketed F#s for C#sus4.
E E7 A (F#m) C#m (F#)
Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
F#m7Silently closing her B7bedroom door
F#m7Leaving the note that she hB7oped would say more
E E7 A (F#m) C#m (F#)
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
F#m7Quietly turning the B7backdoor key, F#m7stepping outside she is free B7
EShe (We gave her most of our lives) Is lE7eaving (Sacraficed most of our lives)
E6Home (We gave her E/Beverything mE7oney could buy)
C#mShe's leaving home after F#living alone for so mC#m7any years (Bye bye)
E E7 A (F#m) C#m (F#)
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
F#m7Picks up the letter that's lB7ying there, sF#m7tanding alone at the toB7p of the stairs
E E7 A (F#m) C#m (F#)
She breaks down and cries to her husband "Daddy our baby's gone
F#m7Why would she treat us so B7thoughtlessly'F#m7 How could she do this to B7me'"
EShe (We never thought of ourselves) Is lE7eaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
E6Home (We struggled hE/Bard all our lE7ives to get by)
C#mShe's leaving home after F#living alone for so C#m7many years (Bye bye)
E E7 A (F#m) C#m (F#)
Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
F#m7Waiting to keep the apB7pointment she made, mF#m7eeting a man from the B7motor trade
EShe (What did we do that was wrong) Is E7having (We didn't know it was wrong)
E6Fun (Fun is the E/Bone thing that mE7oney can't buy)
C#mSomething inside that was F#always denied, for so C#m7many years (Bye bye)
C#mShe's leaving hF#ome, Bye bAye E