When It's Sleepy Time Down South

Billie Holiday

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    Homesick, tired, all alone in a big city
    Why should eveybody pity me?
    Nighttime falling, and I'm yearning for Virginia
    Hospitality within ya calls me

    Pale moon shining on the fields below
    Folks are crooning songs soft and low
    Need not tell me so,
    Because I know it's sleepy time down south

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    Softs winds blowing thru the pinewood trees
    Folks down there live a life of ease
    When the twilight brings the evening breeze
    It's sleepy time down south
    Steamboats on the river, a coming, a going
    Splashing the night away

    Hear those banjos ringing,
    The folks are all singing
    They dance till break of day
    Dear old Southland with its dreamy songs
    Takes back there where I belong
    I'll find heaven in my mothers arms
    When it's sleepy time down south

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    Composition: Leon René, Clarence Muse, and Otis Rene

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