Lyrics:

Homesick, tired, all alone in a big city
Why should everybody pity me?
Night time's falling, and I'm yearning for Virginie
Hospitality within ye calls me

Pale moon shining on the fields below
Folks all crooning songs soft and low
You needn't tell me so, because I know
It's sleepy time down south

Softs winds blowing through the pinewood trees
Folks down there live a life of ease
When old mammy falls upon her knees
It's sleepy time down south

Steamboats on the river, a-comin', a-goin'
Splashing the night away
Hear those banjos ringing, the folks are all singing
They dance 'til break of day, say

Dear old Southland with its dreamy songs
Take me back there where I belong
Oh, how I'd love to be in mammy's arms
When it's sleepy time down south

Dear old Southland with its dreamy songs
Take me back there where I belong
Oh, how I'd love to be in mammy's arms
When it's sleepy time down south

When it's sleepy time down south
When it's sleepy time down south