While the Leaves Came Drifting Down

A popular song from 1898
Words and music by Hattie Nevada

The sheet music:

While-the-Leaves-Came-Drifting-Down – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:

While-the-Leaves-Came-Drifting-Down – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Down a winding road at eve
    We strayed my love and I
    ’Twas covered o’er with leaves
    The soft wind murmered by
    We spied the Gypsie’s camp
    Among the trees so brown
    And I told her that I loved her
    While the leaves came drifting down

Refrain
While the leaves came drifting down
We strayed my love and I
We wandered on so happy
’Neath the moonlit evening sky
I think I see my sweetheart still
With eyes of softest brown
When I told her that I loved her
While the leaves came drifting down

  1. From among the trees there came
    A Gypsy bent and old
    O pretty Miss she cried
    Pray cross my hand with gold
    Born ’neath a lucky star
    The planets all agree
    Before the year is out
    You’ll wed a man of high degree
  2. The Gypsy’s words came true
    Her vows she broke to me
    She sold her heart for gold
    To a man of high degree
    Now in the twilight gray
    I see her eyes so brown
    The winding road, the Gypsy old
    While the leaves came drifting down

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: