When a bee lies sleepin' In the palm of your hand You're bewitched And deep in love's Long looked-after land Where you'll see a sun-up sky With a mornin' new And where the days go laughin' by As love comes a-callin' on you Sleep on bee, don't waken Can't believe what just passed He's mine for the takin' I am happy at last Maybe I dreams, but he seems Sweet golden as a crown A sleepin' bee done told me I will walk with my feet Off the ground When my one true love I has found Sleep on bee, don't waken Cannot believe what just passed He's mine for the takin' I am happy at last Maybe I dreams, but he seems Golden as a crown A sleepin' bee told me I will walk with my feet Off the ground When my one true love I has found