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