She's Leaving Song Lyrics and Chords by Jim Ed Brown
She's Leaving
Recorded by Jim Ed Brown
Written by Kevin Johnson
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She's leaving she's
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leaving
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she's on the ship now and
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leaving
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Standing by the gateway tossing
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streamers over my way
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find it kinda hard be
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lieving
Deceiving
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deceiving
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my subtle game of
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deceiving
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Standing here and waving blowing
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kisses and behaving
Like it
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doesn't matter much to see her
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leaving
I don't know what I don't know who I don't know
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where she's going
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to
I only know she's going out of my
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life
Across the sea a waving hands and Colonel Billy's farewell band
I watch the disappearing face of my
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wife
And I'm doing all I can to hide the
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sad confusion in my
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mind
And brace myself with every trick I
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know
And though my lips are beating time to the words of Auld Lang Syne
My voice keeps on defying crying Bonnie please don't
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go
Oh that fool in me
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persuading me to
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hide the broken pieces of my
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dignity
When a
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simple reassuring word just to
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reach out and comfort her
Was
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all I had to say to keep her
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here with me
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FAQ
Who sang the the song She's Leaving?
- The song She's Leaving was sang by Jim Ed Brown.
Who is Jim Ed Brown?
- James Edward Brown (April 1, 1934 - June 11, 2015) was an American country singer-songwriter who achieved fame in the 1950s with his two sisters as a member of the Browns. He later had a successful solo career from 1965 to 1974, followed by a string of major duet hits with fellow country music vocalist Helen Cornelius, through 1981. Brown was also the host of the Country Music Greats Radio Show, a syndicated country music program from Nashville, Tennessee.
