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 through the pinewood trees

The folks down there live a life of ease

When old mammy falls on her knees

It's sleepy time down south

Steamboats on the river a coming or a going

Splashing the night away

You hear those banjos ringing all the people are singing

They dance till the break of day

Dear old southland with his dreamy songs

Takes me back there where I belong

How I'd love to been someone in my mammy's arms

When it's sleepy time way down south

Steamboats on the river a coming or a going

Splashing the night away

I can hear those banjos ringing all the folks are singing

They dance till the break of day

Dear old southland with your dreamy songs

Take me back down where I know I belong

Right here in my mammy's arms

When it's sleepy time away down south