Softly, As I Leave You - Frank Sinatra (1964)
Words & Music by Hal Shaper & A. de Vita, 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kkJvV-gOs
Capo on the 4th fret for original key of "B"
[Intro] [G] [Am7] [D7] [G] [Am7]
[G] [Am7] [D7] [G] [Am7]
Softly, I will leave you, softly
[D7] [G]
For my heart would break,
[C] [G] [Am7]
If you should wake, and, see me go.
[D7] [G] [Cm7] [F7] [Bb] [Cm7]
So I leave you softly, Long before you, miss me,
[F7] [Bb] [Eb]
Long before, your arms, can beg me stay,
[Bb] [Cm7] [F7] [G] [Am7]
For one more hour, or, one more day.
[D7] [G] [Am7]
After all the years,
[D7] [Em] [Em7] [C]
I can't bear the tears, to fall,
[Eb] [Cm7] [F7] [G] [Am7] [D7]
So softly, as I leave, you there.
[Choir]
[G] [Cm7] [F7] [Bb] [Cm7]
softly, Long before you, miss me,
[F7] [Bb] [Eb]
Long before, your arms, can beg me stay,
[Bb]
For one more hour,
Outro
[Cm7] [F7] [G] [Am7] [D7] [G] [Am7]
Or, one more day; After all the years,
[D7] [Em] [Em7] [C]
I can't bear the tears, to fall,
[Eb] [Cm7] [F7] [G] [Am7] [D7]
So softly, as I leave, you there.
[D7] [G] [Am7]
as I leave, you there.
[D7] [G]
as I leave, you there.
