![]() ![]() ![]() My older brother had received as a baby 'The Bumper Book' and how long I have poured over those pages! I especially loved the additional reference to why Eugene Field wrote ' Little Boy Blue.' Thank you for your website, and then to find Eugene Field and those marvelous poems, all from my childhood, too. I wanted to sing the whole song as we had never quite been clear of the last verse. (I am a professional classical singer and I firmly believe that the singing of these little songs when I was a child helped to shape my future!) My mother is now nearly 95 and we like to sing these childhood songs to her to jar her memory. I was always delighted with the song, and whenever the leaves start to fall in Autumn, I sing that song. Serena Kanig Benish wrote: "My mother taught me 'Come Little Leaves' to a tune unlike those I have heard. Singing the sweet little songs they knew. "Come little leaves," said the wind one day,įor summer is gone and the days grow cold." The snow laid a soft mantle over their heads. Winter had called them and they were content. Say, will you dream of our loving shade?"ĭancing and whirling the little leaves went Little brook, sing us your farewell song-įondly we've watched you in vale and glade "Cricket, good-bye, we've been friends so long Over the brown fields they danced and flew, Soon as the leaves heard the wind's loud call, ![]() "Come over the meadows with me, and play "Come, little leaves," said the wind one day, Here's the full version of the original song "Come Little Leaves" (verses 1, 3 & 5 used to be sung): ![]()
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