Chords for Elvis Presley - Softly, As I Leave You - with story and song lyrics

_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Now this next song is a _ _ song we've been doing a lot here and it's a true story and I'd like
to share the story with you.
The song has been around for a long time but there's a
story behind it.
[B] _ _ _
It's a story of a man who _ [Abm] was in a hospital [Ab] and he's dying and his wife
has been sitting by his bedside for three days and three nights.
Somewhere in the third
day, between midnight and day, she lay down beside him and dozed off [Gb] to sleep.
_ [C] Well he felt her when
she dozed off to sleep and at the same time he [G] felt himself start to die.
[C] _ _ So he didn't want her
to see him. _
[F] [C] That's the way.
_ _ _ So he took his notepad [D] from the side of the bed [C] and he wrote softly, softly,
[Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
from [F] my heart,
_ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ so [G] I leave you,
_ _ [Eb] softly,
_ _ _ [F] _
long before you [Bb] miss me,
[Eb] for _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ one [Eb] more love, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Dbm] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [D] so softly, _ _ _ _ I will leave, _
[Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] I will leave [Bb] you.
_ [B] _ _
[Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Thank you.
Thank you