Chords for Loudon Wainwright - When You Leave

[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ _
_ [C] You left for camp, [Am] _
you left for school, [F] _ _ left for the coast [G] when that was cool [C] then.
You left women, [Am] _
want a wife [F] to _ [G] save your skin.
You wrecked a [C] life and [Dm] _ [Am] when there's [F] kids it's not just one.
[C] _ _ Life that you wreck, [G] you're on the run.
_ [Dm] _ You go to [F] town to start anew, _ _ [C] _ those you [G] left come after you.
[C] It's what you think, [Am] it's how you feel, [F] _ _ though who [C] can say if it's all real.
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[F] _ _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ The darndest [Am] thing is kids grow up, [F] _ _ one day some strange [G] adults show up.
[C] The ones you left [Am] arrive in town, [F] that's nice you say [G] they'll be around.
[Dm] _ [C] Perhaps [F] they're just a bit bereft, [C] _ _ but they'll [G] forgive the one who left. _ _
[Dm] Sad [F] stories can have happy ends, _ _
[C] _ perhaps now you [G] can just [C] be friends.
It's what you want, [Am] how you feel, [F] _ what's more you [C] hope your fear is real.
Who _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
would have [F] thought or could believe [C] things _ go so [G] badly when you leave.
[C] _ [Bb] The skin you saved [F] is growing slack [C] and those you left [G] don't want you [C] back. _
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_ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] Your power's [Am] gone, it was pro temp.
[F] _
The wife you left [G] meant more to them, [C] it's not just that [Am] they side with her.
[F] You left and who [G] knew.
_ _ _ [Dm] _
[F] The reason that they came to town _ [C] _ _
was just to make [G] that place their own.
_ _ [Dm] You [G] realized [F] your greatest fear, _ _ [C] _
you are so close [G] but hardly [Dm] here.
[C]
It's what you think, [Am] it's how you feel, [F] _
and what's [G] worse is you know [C] it's real. _
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