Chords for Frank Sinatra - Softly, As I Leave You (Sinatra... A Man and His Music)

[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Tough problem in putting this album together.
_ There just isn't enough time to pay [Gm] tribute
to the many composers, arrangers, [C] conductors whose talents are so vital to my work.
_ _ [D] It's
either talk about them or let their musical creations do the talking. _
[Bm] _ But I'd like to
say this [Am] about such composers as Kahn and Van Heusen, _ Lawrence and Altman, Adams and
Baer and McHugh, [F#] _
Meyer, Richards, _ _ Carolyn Lee, Earl Robinson, _ _ Rodgers and [F] Hammerstein,
[E] Larry Hart, Harold Allen, [D] and on and on and on.
And such [G#] monumental [G#m] arrangers as Nelson
Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, Billy May, Sy Oliver, [Em] Don Costa, [B] _ _ [C#] Johnny Mandel, and so many more.
And to all their colleagues [Am] whose names I must regretfully omit, _ _ you [A] people have an
abundance of God's greatest gift to [Dm] man, _ imagination.
_ And what is [A] imagination?
_ _ You
reach up to the heavens for an [F#] idea, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
[A#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] and you bring it [C#m] down to [B] earth, and you put it to work. _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ Softly, _ [E] _
_ _ [F#] I will leave [B] you _ _ softly, _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ For [F#] my heart would [B] _ _ break _ if you [E] should _ _ wake
[A#] And [B] see me go. _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ So [G#] I [F#] leave [D] you _ _ _ [F#m] softly, _ _
[G] _ _ _ [A] Long _ before [D] you miss [F#m] _ me, _
[G] _ _ _ [A] Long _ before [F#m] your _ arms
_ [D] Can beg [G] me _ stay [C#] _ for [F#m] one more [D] hour, _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [F#] Or one [B] more _ _ day. _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [F#] After all [B] the _ _ _ [D#m] _ years, _
[E] _ _ I [F#] can't [D#] bear
The [G#m] _ tears _ _ _ to [E] _ fall _ _ _ [G] so _ _ softly, _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ As I leave [D#m] you there, _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ As [F#] I leave [B] you _ _ there, [D#m] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
As I _ [F#] leave _ you _ _ _ _ [B] there. _
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[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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