Intro
G#
[Verse]
G# Fm
The last leaf clings to the bough
G# Cm
Just one leaf, that's all there is now
C# D#
And my last hope lives with that
G# Fm
lonely leaf, lonely leaf
C# E-
With the last leaf that clings to the bough.
G# Fm
Last summer beneath this tree
G# Cm
My love said she'd come back to me
C# D#
Before the leaves of autumn touched
G# Fm
the ground, touched the ground
C# G#
My love promised she's be homeward bound.
[Chorus]
E F# G#
Then one by one the leaves began to fall,
E F# B-break
And now that winter's come to call.
G# Fm
The last leaf that clings to the bough
G# Cm
Just one leaf, that's all there is now.
C# D#
Will my last hope fall with that
G# Fm
lonely leaf, lonely leaf?
C# Cm
With the last leaf, the last leaf,
C# pause C# E- Fm
With the last leaf that clings to the bough
G# Fm G# Fm
Bough, bough, bough . . . (FADE)