Softly, As I Leave You - Frank Sinatra (1964) Words & Music by Hal Shaper & . de Vita, 1962 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kkJvV-gOs Capo on the 4th fret for original key of "" 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. Choir: softly, Long before you, miss me, Long before, your arms, can beg me stay, For one more hour, Frank Sinatra: 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, you there. as I leave, you there.