When It's Sleepy Time Down South

Homesick, tired, all alone in a big city

Why should everybody pity me?

Nighttime's falling, and I'm yearning for Virginia

Hospitality within ya calls me

Pale moon shining on the fields below

Folks are all crooning songs soft and low

Ya need not tell me so

Because I know it's sleepy time down south

Soft wind's blowing through the pinewood trees

Folks down there live a life of ease

When the whole memory falls upon her knees

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 'til the break of day, say

Dear old Southland with its dreamy songs

Take me back there where I belong

Oh, how I love to be in memory's arms

When it's sleepy time down south

Dear old Southland with its dreamy songs

Take me back there where I belong

Oh, how I love to be in memory's arms

When it's sleepy time down south

When it's sleepy time down south

When it's sleepy time down south

When it's sleepy time