Softly, As I Leave You Chords by Frank Sinatra

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