• Song:

    When It's Sleepy Time Down South

  • Artist:

    Louis Armstrong

WHEN ITS SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH 

Fm7                     Fm/Bb 
Pale moon shining on the / fields below 
C                     D9         
Folks are crooning songs / soft and low 
G7          Gb7             G7         E7 
Need not tell me so, be /cause I know it's 
F       Fm/Bb         C 
Sleepy time down / south 


Fm7                         Fm/Bb 
Softs winds blowing thru the / pinewood trees 
C                    D9   
Folks down there live a / life of ease 
G7          Gb7                   G7      E7 
When the twilight brings the / evening breeze, it's 
F      Fm/Bb          C 
Sleepy time down / south 


A                 Bm          C#m      C? 
Steamboats on the river, a / coming, a going 
Bm            E7        A        Bm 
Splashing the night a / way  
A                 Bm             C#m            C? 
Hear those banjos ringing, the / folks are all singing, they 
Bm         E7/F       A 
Dance till break of / day 


F7M                        Fm/Bb 
Dear old Southland with its / dreamy songs 
C                   D9         
Takes back there where / I belong 
G7       Gb7            G7      E7 
Ill find heaven in my / mothers arms, when it's  
F      Fm/Bb         C 
Sleepy time down / south
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