Cover art for Softly, As I Leave You by Frank Sinatra

Softly, As I Leave You

Frank Sinatra
Track 30 on A Man and His Music 

Producers

Jimmy Bowen & Sonny Burke
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Softly, As I Leave You Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Softly, I will leave you softly
For my heart would break if you should wake and see me go
So I leave you softly, long before you miss me
Long before your arms can beg me stay
For one more hour or one more day
After all the years, I can't bear the tears to fall
So, softly as I leave you there

[Verse 2]
(Softly, long before you kiss me)
(Long before your arms can beg me stay)
(For one more hour) or one more day
After all the years, I can't bear the tears to fall
So, softly as I leave you there
As I leave I you there
As I leave I you there

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A Man and His Music (1965)
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    Put Your Dreams Away
  2. 2.
    All or Nothing At All
  3. 3.
    I’ll Never Smile Again
  4. 4.
    There Are Such Things
  5. 5.
    I’ll Be Seeing You
  6. 6.
    The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else)
  7. 7.
    Polka Dots and Moonbeams
  8. 8.
    Night and Day
  9. 9.
    Oh, What It Seemed to Be
  10. 10.
    Soliloquy
  11. 11.
    Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
  12. 12.
    The House I Live In (That’s America to Me)
  13. 13.
    From Here to Eternity
  14. 14.
    Come Fly with Me
  15. 15.
    (How Little It Matters) How Little We Know
  16. 16.
    Learnin’ the Blues
  17. 17.
    In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
  18. 18.
    Young At Heart
  19. 19.
    Witchcraft
  20. 20.
    All the Way
  21. 21.
    Love and Marriage
  22. 22.
    I’ve Got You Under My Skin
  23. 23.
    Ring-A-Ding Ding
  24. 24.
    The Second Time Around
  25. 25.
    The Summit
  26. 26.
    The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York)
  27. 27.
    Luck Be a Lady
  28. 28.
    Call Me Irresponsible
  29. 29.
    Fly Me to the Moon
  30. 30.
    Softly, As I Leave You
  31. 31.
    My Kind of Town
  32. 32.
    The September of My Years
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