Holiday, Billie - When It's Sleepy Time Down South Lyrics
Homesick, tired, all alone in a big city
Why should eveybody pity me?
Nighttime falling, and I'm yearning for Virginia
Hospitality within ya calls me
Folks are crooning songs soft and low
Need not tell me so,
Because I know it's sleepy time down south
Softs winds blowing thru the pinewood trees
Folks down there live a life of ease
When the twilight brings the evening breeze
It's sleepy time down south
Steamboats on the river, a coming, a going
Splashing the night away
Hear those banjos ringing,
The folks are all singing
They dance till break of day
Dear old Southland with its dreamy songs
Takes back there where I belong
I'll find heaven in my mothers arms
When it's sleepy time down south
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Holiday, Billie When It's Sleepy Time Down South Comments
I LOVE HER VOICE.
The famous voice just keep getting better at what she always did best: pour out raw emotion. Technically she never had a great voice, but nobody has ever sung any better.
Her voice is shot and it's not long before she died -so young still- but the very brokenness of it makes the song even ore poignant. She lives forever in the heart of those who are "in touch with their feelings".
Even though her famous voice was gone by this time there was still something special in this Billie Holiday voice. I could listen to this endlessly. Very good pics also to accompany this song -- which I feel Billie sincerely -- sang very well.
This must be one of her last recordings: 1959, Ray Ellis. Why is it that when Billie Holiday sang a song it instantly became the ultimate version of that song with more feeling, better phrasing, than anyone else. And that still goes.