Early Autumn

EARLY AUTUMN
W: Johnny Mercer
M: Ralph Burns & Woody Herman
Woody Herman, Ella Fitzgerald
Key: Eb

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When an ear-ly au-tumn walks the land 
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and chills the breeze
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and touch-es with her hand the sum-mer trees,
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per-haps you'll un-der-stand 
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what mem-o-ries I own.

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There's a dance pa-vil-ion in the rain 
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all shut-tered down,
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a wind-ing coun-try lane all rus-set brown,
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a frost-y win-dow pane 
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shows me a town grown lone-ly.

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That spring of ours that start-ed 
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so A-pril-heart-ed,
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seemed made for just a boy and girl.
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I nev-er dreamed, did you, 
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an-y fall could come in view 
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so ear-ly, ear-ly.
 
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Dar-ling if you care, please let me know,
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I'll meet you an-y-where, I miss you so.
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Let's nev-er have to share 
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an-oth-er ear-ly au-tumn.