"Autumn Leaves" — Kosma and Prévert's French elegy, Mercer's English translation.
Writer(s): kosma/prevert/mercer
The falling leaves
Drift by the window
The autumn leaves
Of red and gold
I see your lips
The summer kisses
The sunburned hands
I used to hold
Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon Ill hear
Old winters song
But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall
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- Music by Joseph Kosma, French lyrics by Jacques Prévert (1945), English lyric by Johnny Mercer. The falling leaves as a metaphor for losing someone — one of the most recorded songs in history. Sinatra's version brought the French melancholy into the American Songbook tradition.