When It's Sleepy Time Down South

Album: The Complete Louis Armstrong (1930)
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  • Now the pale moon's shining on the fields below
    The folks are crooning songs soft and low
    You needn't tell me, boy, because I know
    When it's sleepy time down south

    Soft wind blowing through the pinewood trees
    The folks down there live a life of ease
    When old mammy falls on her knees
    When it's sleepy time down south

    Steamboats on the river a-coming, a-going
    Splashing the night away
    You hear those banjos ringing, all the people all singing
    They dance 'til the break of day, oh

    Dear old southland with his dreamy songs
    Take me back where I belong
    Right here in my mammy's arms
    When it's sleepy time down south

    Dear old southland with his dreamy songs
    Take me back where I belong
    Right here in my mammy's arms
    When it's sleepy time, sleepy time, down south

    Yes, Lord Writer/s: Clarence Muse, Leon Rene, Otis Rene
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, OTIS RENE PUBLICATIONS, Shapiro Bernstein & Co Inc, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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