(Elvis usually introduced this song with the following words:
"Now this next song, ladies and gentlemen, that we'd like to do
is a song we've been doing a lot here and it's a true story and I'd
like to share the story with you: The song has been around for a long time
but there's a story behind it and I'd like to share it with you. It's
the story of a man whose in a hospital and he's dying and his wife has
been sitting by his bedside for three days and three nights. Somewhere on
the third day between midnight and day she lay down beside him and dozed off
to sleep. Well he felt her when she dozed off to sleep and at the same time
he felt himself start to die. So he didn't want her to see him pass away
so he took his notepad from the side of the bed and he wrote .......)


[Elvis speaks, (Sherril Nielson sings)]


Softly (Softly)
I will leave you (I will leave you softly)
Softly (Softly)
For my heart would break (For my heart would break)
If you should wake (If you should wake)
And see me go (And see me go)


So I leave you (So I leave you)
Softly (Softly)
Long before you miss me (Long before you miss me)
Long before your arms can beg me stay (Long before your arms can beg me stay)
For one more hour (For one more hour)
For one more day (For one more day)


After all the years (After all the years)
I can't bare the tears (I can't bare the tears)
To fall (To fall)
So softly, (So softly) so softly
(I will leave you there)
I will leave you
I will leave you there

Standard tuning.

    C     Dm7
    Softly (Softly)
           G7
    I will leave you (I will leave you softly)
    C     Dm7
    Softly (Softly)
           G7          C
    For my heart would break (For my heart would break)
                  F
    If you should wake (If you should wake)
               C  Dm7
    And see me go (And see me go)
         G7
    So I leave you (So I leave you)
    Eb    Fm7
    Softly (Softly)
           Bb7      Eb     Fm7
    Long before you miss me (Long before you miss me)
           Bb7       Eb              Ab
    Long before your arms can beg me stay (Long before your arms can beg me stay)
                 Gm7   Eb  Fm7
    For one more hour (For one more hour)
       Bb7      C  Dm7
    Or one more day (For one more day)

          G7      C    Dm
    After all the years (After all the years)
            G7       Am
    I can't bare the tears (I can't bare the tears)
    Am7  F
    To   fall (To fall)
                          +----------------------------------------------------
       Ab      Fm7        |1                                        C    Dm  G7
    So softly, (So softly) (I will leave you there)I will leave you there

    Repeat verse

    +------------------------------------------
    |2
                   C    Dm7
    As I leave you there (As I leave you there)
         G7        C    Dm7
    As I leave you there (As I leave you there)
         G7        C    Fm6   C
    As I leave you there (As I leave you there)

    Chords:
      Fm6
    e --1--
    B --1--
    G --1--
    D --0--
    A -----
    E -----