Lyrics When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Billie Holiday

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