When It's Sleepy Time Down South

When It's Sleepy Time Down South - The Red Onion Jazz Band

Now the pale moon 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 winds blowing pinewood by the 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 or a going

Splashing the night away

You hear those banjos ringing

And the folks are singing

And they dance till the break of day oh

Dear old southland with his dreamy songs

Takes me back where I belong

Right back to my mammy's arms

When it's sleepy time down south