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When You Leave Tab

by Loudon Wainwright Iii


When You Leave		LW111

LW111 plays with capo on the 5th fret. There is a deal of hammering on during the chord 
(Not sure about the C after the F in the Break).The D at the end of each couplet is D 
then Dsus4

		     
You left for camp, you left for school
		                 
Left for the coast when that was cool then
               
You left women, one a wife
		             
To save your skin you wrecked a life and
		   
then there's kids its not just one
            		    
life that you wreck you're on the run
		
You go to town to start anew
     		
those you left come after you

                    
Its what you think its how you feel
		      
though who can say if its all real
                  
The darndest thing kids grow up
		           
One day some strange adults show up
                     
The ones you left are right in town
		        
that’s nice you say they'll be around
		
perhaps they just a bit bereft but
        		
they'll forgive the one who left
		     
sad stories can have happy ends
        		
perhaps now you can just be friends
                     
Its what you want its how you feel
		          
whats more you hope your theory's real
(Break)
		           
Who would have thought or could believe
         		
Things go so badly when you leave
		       
the skin you saved is growing slack and
        	      
those you left don't want you back

(Instrumental)
		     
Your power's gone it was pro tem
		         
The wife you left meant more to them
		       
Its not just that they side with her
		      
you left and who knew where you were
		
The reason that they came to town
		      
was just to make that place their own
		   
You realised your greatest fear
	             
you are so close but hardly here
      		           
It's what you think   it's how you feel
		
and what's worse is you know its real