"Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular jazz standard song. Originally it was
a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "The Dead Leaves") with music
by Hungarian-French composer Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert, and
the Hungarian title is "Hulló levelek" (Falling Leaves).
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[Intro]
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The falling leaves
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Drift by my window
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The falling leaves
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Of red and gold
Am7 D7
I see your lips
Gmaj7 Em6
The summer kisses
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The sunburned hands
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I used to hold
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B7
Since you went away
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Em
The days grow long
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And soon I'll hear
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Em
Old winter's song
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But I miss you
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Most of all
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My Darling
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When autumn leaves
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