Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

 The last leaf clings to the bough

 Just one leaf, that's all there is now

 And my last hope lives with that

  lonely leaf, lonely leaf

 With the last leaf that clings to the bough.

 Last summer beneath this tree

 My love said she'd come back to me

 Before the leaves of autumn touched

  the ground, touched the ground

 My love promised she's be homeward bound.

Chorus

  Then one by one the leaves began to fall,

  -break

And now that winter's come to call.

 The last leaf that clings to the bough

 Just one leaf, that's all there is now.

 Will my last hope fall with that

  lonely leaf, lonely leaf?

 With the last leaf, the last leaf,

  pause -

With the last leaf that clings to the bough

 Bough, bough, bough . . . (FADE)