diff --git a/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml
index dc4559036..bd8a3603a 100644
--- a/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 path = "src/tail.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-clap = { version = "2.33", features = ["wrap_help"] }
+clap = { version = "3.0", features = ["wrap_help", "cargo"] }
 libc = "0.2.42"
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.10", package="uucore", path="../../uucore", features=["ringbuffer"] }
 uucore_procs = { version=">=0.0.7", package="uucore_procs", path="../../uucore_procs" }
diff --git a/src/uu/tail/src/tail.rs b/src/uu/tail/src/tail.rs
index 655abcecf..701ddbce7 100644
--- a/src/uu/tail/src/tail.rs
+++ b/src/uu/tail/src/tail.rs
@@ -271,14 +271,14 @@ fn arg_iterate<'a>(
     }
 }
 
-pub fn uu_app() -> App<'static, 'static> {
+pub fn uu_app<'a>() -> App<'a> {
     App::new(uucore::util_name())
         .version(crate_version!())
         .about(ABOUT)
-        .usage(USAGE)
+        .override_usage(USAGE)
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::BYTES)
-                .short("c")
+            Arg::new(options::BYTES)
+                .short('c')
                 .long(options::BYTES)
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .allow_hyphen_values(true)
@@ -286,14 +286,14 @@ pub fn uu_app() -> App<'static, 'static> {
                 .help("Number of bytes to print"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::FOLLOW)
-                .short("f")
+            Arg::new(options::FOLLOW)
+                .short('f')
                 .long(options::FOLLOW)
                 .help("Print the file as it grows"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::LINES)
-                .short("n")
+            Arg::new(options::LINES)
+                .short('n')
                 .long(options::LINES)
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .allow_hyphen_values(true)
@@ -301,42 +301,42 @@ pub fn uu_app() -> App<'static, 'static> {
                 .help("Number of lines to print"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::PID)
+            Arg::new(options::PID)
                 .long(options::PID)
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .help("with -f, terminate after process ID, PID dies"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::verbosity::QUIET)
-                .short("q")
+            Arg::new(options::verbosity::QUIET)
+                .short('q')
                 .long(options::verbosity::QUIET)
                 .visible_alias("silent")
                 .overrides_with_all(&[options::verbosity::QUIET, options::verbosity::VERBOSE])
                 .help("never output headers giving file names"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::SLEEP_INT)
-                .short("s")
+            Arg::new(options::SLEEP_INT)
+                .short('s')
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .long(options::SLEEP_INT)
                 .help("Number or seconds to sleep between polling the file when running with -f"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::verbosity::VERBOSE)
-                .short("v")
+            Arg::new(options::verbosity::VERBOSE)
+                .short('v')
                 .long(options::verbosity::VERBOSE)
                 .overrides_with_all(&[options::verbosity::QUIET, options::verbosity::VERBOSE])
                 .help("always output headers giving file names"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::ZERO_TERM)
-                .short("z")
+            Arg::new(options::ZERO_TERM)
+                .short('z')
                 .long(options::ZERO_TERM)
                 .help("Line delimiter is NUL, not newline"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::ARG_FILES)
-                .multiple(true)
+            Arg::new(options::ARG_FILES)
+                .multiple_occurrences(true)
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .min_values(1),
         )