Recorded by BOBBY GOLDSBORO on UNITED ARTlSTS U A 10318

AUTUMN OF MY LIFE

Moderately slow

Words and Mzlsic by BOBBY GOLDSBORO

A . Cm ~ m 7 ( ~ b bass) ~ m 7 ( ~ b bass) ~ b 7 I ~b 11

Cm ~ b l l ~b F m 7 ( ~ b bass) ~b

brought me - I'd nev - e r lmown. I II

2. And the years they went by in the spring of my life, 4. Now what do you say to a child of ten? And in summer she blessed me with a child; How do you tell him his daddy's going away? Love continued to grow in the summer of my life, Do I tell him that I reached the autumn of my life, And in every morning sun I saw her smile. And that he'll understand some winter's day.

3 . But in the autumn of my years I noticed the tears, 5. Now a rose can't be found on a snow-covered ground, And I knew that our life was in the past. And the sun cannot shine through cloudy skies; Though I tried to pretend, I knew it was the end But I'm richer you see, for the years she gave to me, For the autumn of my life had come at last. And I'm content in the autumn of my life.

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