When It's Sleepy Time Down South by Billie Holiday
Time: 04:08
Track #6 from the album Baby Won't You Please Come Home.
Written by: MUSE, CLARENCE/RENE, LEON/RENE, OTIS
Published by: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, SHAPIRO BERNSTEIN & CO. INC.
Lyrics
Homesick tired All alone in a big city
Why should ev'rybody pity me,
Nighttime's falling, folks are a singin',
they dance till break of day
Dear Old Southland with it's dreamy songs
Takes me back there where I belong
How I'd love to be in mammy's arms
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
