When It's Sleepy Time Down South Lyrics

The song When It's Sleepy Time Down South is performed by Billie Holiday in the album named Last Recordings in the year 1990 .



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

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



Billie Holiday - Last Recordings

Oct 1990

  1. All of You [From Silk Stocking]
  2. Sometimes I'm Happy [From Hit the Deck]
  3. You Took Advantage of Me [From Present Arms]
  4. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
  5. There'll Be Some Changes Made
  6. 'Deed I Do
  7. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
  8. All the Way [From the Joker Is Wild]
  9. Just One More Chance
  10. It's Not for Me to Say
  11. I'll Never Smile Again
  12. Baby Won't You Please Come Home

When It's Sleepy Time Down South