Last Leaf chords by Tom Waits

Chords with lyrics

Album - Bad As Me
Song - Last Leaf

I thought Tom Waits had already written some of his most beautiful songs. I was wrong.

Capo 5th

    C majorC  G+G      C majorC  C7C7
I'm the last leaf on the tree
  FF
The autumn took the rest
  C majorC        A minorAm
But they won't take me
    C majorC  G+G      C majorC
I'm the last leaf on the tree

C majorC
When the autumn wind blows
    A minorAm
They're already gone
   FF
They flutter to the ground
      G+G
Cause they can't hang on
    C majorC
There's nothing in the world
   A minorAm
That I ain't seen
 FF                G+G
I greet all the new ones that are coming in green

I'm the last leaf on the tree
The autumn took the rest but they wont take me
I'm the last leaf on the tree
They say I got staying power
Here on the tree
But I've been here since Eisenhower
And I've out lived even he

I'm the last leaf on the tree
The autumn took the rest but they won't take me
I'm the last leaf on the tree

I fight off the snow
I fight off the hail
Nothing makes me go
I'm like some vestigial tail
I'll be here through eternity
If you want to know how long
If they cut down this tree
I'll show up in a song

I'm the last leaf on the tree
The autumn took the rest but they won't take me
    C majorC  G+G      C majorC
I'm the last leaf on the tree
    C majorC  G+G      C majorC
I'm the last leaf on the tree
    C majorC  G+G      C majorC
I'm the last leaf on the tree


Alternatively, if you want to play the song capo'd on the 1st:

C majorC = E MajorE
C7C7 = E7E7
G+G = BB
FF = A augmentedA