When It's Sleepy Time Down South Lyrics - 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 

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 

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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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