Come Little Leaves

Growing up in our little homeschool, we sometimes sang songs from a children's songbook called Sing Through the Seasons. Come Little Leaves was one of the fall songs we sang. Now that "fall" is approaching (here we apparently just have "fall," not fall) it seemed like a good time to share it.

Come, little leaves,
Said the wind one day;
Come to the meadows
With me and play.
Put on your dresses
Of red and gold;
For summer is past,
And the days grow cold.

Soon as the leaves
Heard the wind's loud call,
Down they came fluttering,
One and all.
Over the meadows
They danced and flew,
All singing the glad
Little songs they knew.

Dancing and flying,
The leaves went along,
Til Winter called them
To end their sweet song.
Soon, fast asleep
In their earthy beds,
The snow lay a coverlet
O'er their heads.