Barbra Streisand

She’s Leaving Home

Barbra Streisand


Tom: E

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Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins 
A              B7
Silently closing her bedroom door
A                B7
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
     E  Bm        F#m             C#m        F#7
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching a handkerchief
A             B7                   A              B7
Quietly turning the backdoor key stepping outside 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 buy"
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She is leaving home after living alone for so many years
E    Bm        F#m             C#m         F#7
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
A                  B7                    A             B7
Picks up the letter that's lying there. Standing alone at the top of the stairs
      E     Bm       F#m            C#m     F#7
She breaks down and cries to her husband Daddy our baby's gone
A               B7                      A               B7
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly  how could she do this to me
E
She "We never thought of ourselves". Is leaving  "never a thought for ourselves"
          Bm
Home  "We struggled hard all our lives to get by"
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She's leaving home after living alone for so many years
E    Bm      F#m              C#m     F#7
Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
A             B7                         A             B7
Waiting to keep the appointment she made meeting a man from the motor trade
E
She  "What did we do that was wrong". Is having  "We didn't know it was wrong"
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Fun  "Fun is the one thing that money can't buy"
C#m               F#7            C#m      F#7
Something inside that was always denied for so many years
C#m         F#7     A  E
She's leaving home   bye bye