She's leaving home (participle clauses)

 1. Waiting to keep

2. Standing alone

3. Leaving the note

4. Greeting a man

5. Stepping outside,

6. Silently closing

7. Clutching

8. Quietly turning

A. that she hoped would say more

B. her handkerchief

C. the backdoor key

D. from the motor trade

E. at the top of the stairs

F. the appointment she made

G. her bedroom door

H. she is free

 

Wednesday morning at five o'clock
As the day begins
1_____________________________________
2______________________________________

She goes down the stairs to the kitchen
3_______________________________________
4______________________________________
5_______________________________________

She, ... (we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (we gave her everything money could buy)

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
6________________________________________
She breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy, our baby's gone.
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
How could she do this to me?

She (we never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (never a thought for ourselves)
Home (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years

Friday morning, at nine o'clock
She is far away
7_________________________________________
8_________________________________________

She (what did we do that was wrong)
Is having (we didn't know it was wrong)
fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)

Something inside, that was always denied,
for so many years,
She's leaving home

She’s Leaving Home

Wednesday morning at _____ o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing her ________ door
Leaving the _____ that she hoped would say more
She goes ___________ to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the __________ key
Stepping outside she is _____

She (We gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (__________ most of our lives)
Home (We gave her everything money ______ buy)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years (Bye bye)

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's _______ there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband "Daddy our baby's gone
Why would she treat us so ________________?
How ______ she do this to me?"

She (We never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
Home (We ______ hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years (Bye bye)

Friday morning at ____ o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the ____________ she made
__________ a man from the motor trade

She (What did we do that was wrong)
Is having (We didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (_____ is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside that was always _______
For so many years (Bye bye)


She's leaving home
She's leaving home