When It's Sleepy Time Down South - The Boswell Sisters

How’d you like to do a little favor for us?

Come and join us in the chorus

Sing along one and all

With the little bouncing ball

Now if you like the songs about the land of cotton

This one will not be forgotten

Sing it loud, sing it low

Come one friends

Sing «sleepy time down south»

Pale moon’s shining on the the fields below

Darkies crooning soft and low

You needn’t tell me, honey, cause I know

It’s sleepy time down south

Soft winds blowing through the pinewood trees

Folks down there live a life of ease

When old mammy falls up on her knees

It’s sleepy time down south

Steamboats on the river comin' and goin'

Splashing the night away

Hear those banjos ringin', darkies a-singin'

They dance 'til break of day, oh

Dear old southland with her dreamy song

Take me there where I belong

How I’d love to be in mammy’s arms

When it’s sleepy time down south

Pale moon’s shining on the fields below

Darkies croonin' soft and low

You needn’t tell me, honey, cause I know

It’s sleepy time down south

Soft winds blowing through the pinewood trees

Folks down there live a life of ease

When old mammy falls up on her knees

It’s sleepy time down south

Steamboats on the river comin' a-goin'

Splashing the night away, oh

Hear those banjos ringin', darkies a-singin'

They dance 'til break of day

Dear old southland with her dreamy song

Take me there where I belong

How I’d love to be in mammy’s arms

When it’s sleepy time down south