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Shes Leaving Home by The Beatles - Guitar Chords

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            Song: She's leaving home
Artist: The Beatles
Composer: Lennon and McCartney
Album: Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar-)  31st May 2016

This is best played fingerstyle. I suggest alternating the style 
between simultaneously plucking the strings together (simulating the
pizzicato violins) and full arpeggios. 
An advantage of playing this in C on guitar is the relatively easier
chords, with the additional option to be able to lower the capo and
the key, if needed, to help sing those very high notes.

FINE TUNING:  The backing track tape was most likely sped up 
slightly, raising the pitch sharply.  To match it for playing along,
use a chromatic tuner and tune all the strings up approx. +40 cents
above standard pitch. Alternatively, to avoid any retuning, 
live performances are more likely to be in standard pitch.

Live performance clip of Paul McCartney at this link:
--.-/watch?ds49aDIc8TnrC9tQ

TIME SIGNATURE: 3/4 (Waltz time)

This is a nice little riff to add:
  * Am7         D9
e |-----------|-----------|-----------|
B |--1--1--1--|--1--1--1--|--1--1--1--|
G |--0--0--0--|--2--2--2--|--2--2--2--|
D |-----------|--0--2--4--|--2--0-----|
A |--0--2--3--|-----------|--------3--|
E |-----------|-----------|-----------|

CAPO: 4th fret  (Will then sound in the original approx. recorded
                  key of E.  See the info above on fine-tuning)

Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
C   = x32010    Dm/F = xx3231 or 10023x     G7     = 320001
Gm7 = 353333    Am7  = x02010               C7     = x32310
Dm  = xx0231    D9   = x54550 or xx0210     Gm6/Bb = x10030
                F/G  = 303211               F/A    = x03211

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[Intro]
   C
|  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |

[Verse 1]
C         Gm7         Dm        Dm/F          Am7
Wednesday morning, at five o' - clock, as the day begins,

 * Am7         D9
|  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |

F/G                  G7
Silently closing her bedroom door,
F/G                        G7
Leaving the note, that she hoped would say more,
         C      Gm7           Dm       Dm/F          Am7
She goes down - stairs to the kitchen, clutching her handkerchief,

 * Am7         D9
|  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |

F/G                 G7             F/G                     G7
Quietly turning the backdoor key,  stepping outside she is free

[Verse 2]
C
She-----------------------------------...
      (We gave her most of our lives!)

      C7
...Is leaving---------------------------------...
                (Sacrificed most of our lives!)

C                   Gm6/Bb                 Am7 
Home----------------------------!          She's leaving home,
       (We gave her everything money could buy---------!)

      D9                  Am7              D9
After living alone for so many years!   |  /  /  /  |
              (Bye------, bye-------!)

[Verse 3]
C      Gm7            Dm        Dm/F     Am7
Father snores, as his wife gets into her dressing gown,

 * Am7         D9
|  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |

F/G                        G7
Picks up the letter that's lying there,
F/G                   G7
standing alone at the top of the stairs,
           C         Gm7          Dm        Dm/F       Am7
She breaks down, and cries to her husband, "Daddy, our baby's gone!"

 * Am7         D9
|  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |

 F/G                       G7
"Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
F/G                      G7
How could she do this to me?"

[Verse 4]
C
She-----------------------------------...
      (We never thought of ourselves!)

      C7
...Is leaving-------------------------------...
              (Never a thought for ourselves!)

C                  Gm6/Bb                    Am7 
Home---------------------------!             She's leaving home,
     (We struggled hard all our lives to get by---------!)

      D9                  Am7             D9
After living alone for so many years   |  /  /  /  |
              (Bye------, bye------!)

[Verse 5]
C      Gm7        Dm        Dm/F        Am7
Friday morning at nine o' - clock she is far away,

 * Am7         D9
|  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |

F/G                      G7
Waiting to keep the ap - pointment she made,
F/G                    G7
Meeting a man from the motor trade

[Verse 6]
C
She-----------------------------------...
      (What did we do that was wrong?)

      C7
...Is having--------------------------------...
               (We didn't know it was wrong!)

C                 Gm6/Bb                     Am7
Fun----------------------------!             Something inside,
      (Fun is the one thing that money can't buy---------)

         D9                   Am7               D9
That was always denied for so many years!    |  /  /  /  |
                  (Bye------, bye-------!)

[Coda]
Am7           D9          F/A        C
She's leaving home  (Bye, bye!)
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