Drowsy Sleeper- Mrs. C. L. Franklin(NC) 1930 Henry
[Fragment from Folk Songs from the Southern Highlands; Melinger Henry, 1938,
R. Matteson 2016]
THE DROWSY SLEEPER
See Campbell and Sharp, No. 47; Sturgis and Hughes, Songs from the Hills of Vermont, p. 30; Sharp, Folk-Songs of English Origin Collected in the Appalachian Mountains, Second Series, p. 48; Cox, No. 108; Journal, XX, 260; XXIX, 200; XXX, 338; XXVI, 354.
This first stanza of "The Drowsy Sleeper" was obtained from Mrs. C. L. Franklin, Crossnore, Avery County, North Carolina, August, 1930.
1. Wake, oh, wake, you drowsy sleeper;
Wake, oh, wake, it's almost day.
Can you sleep and slumber
And your true-love's going away?