Bluegrass Messengers

Drowsy Sleeper- Ollie Gilbert (AR) 1969 Hunter C

[From Max Hunter Folk Song collection: Cat. #0803 (MFH #128), with minor editing.

R. Matteson 2016]
 

Drowsy Sleeper- As sung by Ollie Gilbert, Mountain View, Arkansas on June 25, 1969

VERSE 1
Wake up, wake up, you drowsy sleeper
Wake up, wake up, for it's almost day
How can you lie, sleep an' slumber
When your true love is goin' away?

VERSE 2
Hush up, hush up, you ain't my papa
Bad news, bad news, will be to him
Go away, go away, an' court another
She soft-lie whispered in his ears.

VERSE 3
I won't go 'way an' court no other
You're the only girl I love

VERSE 4
If I were a little sparrow
An' I had wings I'd fly so high
My false true lover I would follow
An' in 'er talk I'd be close by

VERSE 5
O yes, I see you ain't no sparrow
An' you not got wing to fly so high
You're [a] false true lover you cain't follow
An' in her talk, you won't be close by.