The Autumn Leaves, Caress the Trees ...

Those are the words that I remember to the song; but, I don't really remember who sang the lyrics to it. I do remember the piano version by Roger Williams, which I always loved and hoped I could mimic him. Unfortunately, I never quite mastered the tickling of the keys to imagine the falling leaves... oh, well!

I couldn't find the words that I was familiar with; however, I did find some lyrics to the song "Autumn Leaves" sung by Nat King Cole, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and music by Joseph Kosma. Shall we begin...

The falling leaves drift by my window

The autumn leaves of red and gold

I see your lips, the summer kisses

The sunburned hand I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long

And soon I'll hear old winter's song

But I miss you most of all, my darling

When autumn leaves start to fall

I see you lips, the summer kisses

The sunburned hand I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long

And soon I'll hear old winter's song

But I miss you most of all, my darling

When autumn leaves start to fall

The season of Autumn is definitely my favorite time of year. I think it's because of the colors, the bright reds, golds, oranges, yellows, rusty colors, purples, and even what's left of the greens. The season of warm, sweet spices, gingerbread men, pumpkin patches, pumpkin pies, jams, apple picking, the indulgence of apple pies, dumplings, baked apples, homemade applesauce atop warm, spicy gingerbread, and such, -- "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" (or in the oven) -- hayrides (remember what fun we had in our younger days!), raking up the leaves into a huge pile then jumping into them!

Talking about gingerbread, I remember a story about The Gingerbread Man and how he ran away saying,

"Run, run, as fast as you can

You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!"

Again, I found a cute song about a "Gingerbread Man" - the lyrics from Sesame Street and, no doubt, it would have been sung by "Cookie Monster"! Here we go:

Gingerbread man, me love you

Gingerbread man, 'cause you got

Cookie hands and cookie feet

You so brown and friendly and delicious to eat

Oh, gingerbread man, me love you

Gingerbread man, but fella, me not know what to do

'Cause you a cookie and a dolly, too

First me want to hug you like a best friend should

Then me want to eat you 'cause you taste so good

First me want to play with you my whole life through

But me want to put you in me tummy, too

Gingerbread man, me love you

Gingerbread man, me want to eat you

'cause you made of gingerbread

But, no, no, no, me love you so

Gingerbread man, me gonna keep you

for a gingerbread friend

And eat oatmeal cookie instead!

ENJOY this beautiful New England season of Autumn!