LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP IN CAROLINA 
(Milton Ager / Jack Yellen)


Annette Hanshaw - 1926
Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orch. (vocal: Charles Kaley) - 1926
Broadway Bell-Hops (vocal: Bob Thomas) - 1926
Ben Selvin's Kensington Serenaders (vocal: The Vaudeville Trio) - 1926 
The Brox Sisters - 1926
Charles Kaley - 1926








As recorded by ANNETTE HANSHAW, 13th September 1926:


Left my home and began to roam around
Now I pine to be Carolina bound
Tired out and knocked about this way
And I feel like I want to kneel and pray

Let me lay me down to sleep in Carolina
With a peaceful pillow 'neath my weary head
For a rolling stone like me there's nothing finer
Than the comfort of that cozey little bed

Oh Lawdy, what a thrill to hear that whippoorwill
Sing me a rockabye lullaby from a hill
Mister Dream Man, won't you please come 'round and get me
Let me lay me down to sleep in Caroline

Ten o'clock and I slumber back
Eleven o'clock, still I toss around
Twelve o'clock, count a million sheep
One o'clock, not a wink of sleep
Two o'clock and I close an eye
Three o'clock and the milk goes by
Four, Five, Six and then 
Alarm clock rings and I'm back again
Do you wonder I'm this way
Do you wonder why I say

Let me lay me down to sleep in Carolina
With a peaceful pillow 'neath my weary head
For a rolling stone like me there's nothing finer
Than the comfort of that cozey little bed

Oh Lawdy, what a thrill to hear that whippoorwill
Sing me a rockabye lullaby from the hill, doo-doo-doo
Mister Dream Man, won't you please come 'round and get me
Let me lay me down to sleep in Caroline
Ah-doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo

That's all!






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2014)