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- When It's Sleepy
Time Down South
- Words and Music
by Leon Rene, Otis Rene, and Clarence Muse - 1930
| Verse:----------- |
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| F |
E7 |
C Cdim |
C7 Cdim |
| C7 Cdim |
C7 C+ |
F Dm |
Gm7 C7 |
| F |
E7 |
A |
- Edim |
| Bm7 E7 |
Bm7 E7 |
A |
C7 F7 |
| Chorus:--------- |
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| Bb |
Bbm |
F |
G7 |
| C9 |
Gm B7 Am A7 |
Bb Eb9 |
F |
| Bb |
Bbm |
F |
G7 |
| C9 |
Gm B7 Am A7 |
Bb Eb9 |
F E7 |
| A |
- Edim |
Bm7 E7 |
A |
| - |
- Edim |
Bm7 E7 |
A C7 |
| Bb |
Bbm |
F |
G7 |
| C9 |
Gm B7 Am A7 |
Bb Eb9 |
F (F7 to
chorus) |
- 8-beat intro. Play 4-beats
for each cell, reading from left to right.
- Note: This song is in the key
of F, but the chorus starts with a Bb chord.
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- Verse:
- Home - sick, ti - red, All
a - lone in a big ci - ty,
- Why should ev - 'ry - bod
- y pi - ty me?
- Night - time's fall - ing,
And I'm yearn - ing for Vir - gin - ia,
- Hos - pi - tal - i - ty
with - in ya calls me.
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- Chorus:
- Pale moon shin - ning on
the fields be - low, Folks are croon - ing songs soft and
low,
- Need - n't tell me so, be
- cause I know, it's Sleep - y Time Down South.
- Soft winds blow - ing thru
the pine - wood trees, Folks down there live a life of
ease,
- When the twi - light brings
the ev' - ning breeze, It's Sleep -y Time Down South.
- Steam - boats on the riv
- er, a - com - ing, a- go - ing, Splash - ing the night
a - way,
- Hear those ban - jos ring
- ing, the folks all a- sing - ing, They dance till break
of day.
- Dear old South - land with
its dream -y songs, Takes me back there where I be -long,
- I'll find heav - en in my
moth - ers arms, When It's Sleep -y Time Down South.
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
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