I was twenty one years when I wrote this song I'm twenty two now but I won't be for long Time hurries on And the leaves that are green___ turn to brown And they wither with the wind And they crumble in your hand Once my heart was filled with a love of a girl I held her close but she faded in the night Like a poem I meant to write And the leaves that are green turn to brown And they wither with the wind And they crumble in your hand I threw a pebble in a brook And watched the ripples run a-way And they never made a sound And the leaves that are green turned to brown And they wither with the wind And they crumble in your hand Hello hello hello goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye  That's all there is And the leaves that are green turned to brown And they wither with the wind And they crumble in your hand