Time For The Leaving

    E                       G#m
The wind blows the ashes of summer,
    F#m                            
and pulls the tar paper face on the
  E      D     A
 hooding
    E                   G#m
the marmalade cat, with dark mangled
 ears
F#m                           
slips through the fence without 
   E
speaking
           F#m
this is my world and home
A                                 
football and marbles and coming 
               E
home late if you dare

E                              
I       look at the face in the 
G#m
mirror,
  F#m                              
I know it so well, but I don’t know
     E    D     A
 at all
        E                         
and the child books are weary, and
G#m
 fade on the shelves
     F#m                           
with things that were precious now 
 E
dusty
           F#m
this is my yesterday
        A                          
and the friends that I knew,  have 
    E
all gone

B
now
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    A
and now
E                              F#
now                      is the time
        E   D    A     E
for the leavin’

      E                      G#m
in a corner she sits,  by the fire
    F#m                         
she seeks the words that somehow 
  E    D     A
elude her
        E                 G#m
and the yesterday face,  a picture 
with moustache
      F#m                        
looks down to the ground from the 
  E
mantelpiece
           F#m
this is my world alone
    A                              
the blue cotton dress and the man 
                   E
on the cross on the wall

     E                        G#m
then why must you go,  are the words
 that she’s found
           F#m                     
there’s a job in the paper, that’s 
 E    D     A
firm
     E                    G#m
five minutes from home and the pay 
is real good
        F#m                        
and the prospects get better, they 
 E
say
          F#m
how can I tell you now
     A                           E
good bye       must be all I can say

    B
and now
    A
and now
E                              F#
now                      is the time
        E
for the leavin’
    B
and now
    A
and now
E                              F#
now                      is the time
        E    D    A    E
for the leavin’
        E    D    A    E
(repeat to fade)