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Sleepy Time Gal
Words & Music by Joseph Reed Alden, Raymond Egan, Ange Lorenzo & Richard A.Whiting, 1924Recorded by Glenn Miller, 1935
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Sleep - y time gal, you're turn - in' night in - to day!
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Sleep - y time gal, you've danced the ev' - ning a - way!
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Be - fore each sil - ver - y star fades out of sight,
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Please give me one lit - tle kiss,
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Then let us whis - per "Good - night,"
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It's get - tin' late, Dear,
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Your pil - low is wait - in'
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Sleep - y time gal, when all your dan - cin' is through,
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Sleep - y time gal, I'll find a cot - tage for you.
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You'll learn to cook and to sew,
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What's more, you'll love it, I know,
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When you're a stay-at-home, play-at-home,
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Eight o'clock sleepy time gal!
This one was a challenge...to say the least. Glenn Miller's version is credited here, but in point of fact, I didn't have a complete version of any of the half-dozen or so that I was working from, by a variety of artists, ranging from a Larry Elgart rendition I found particularly useful, to snippets of Ray Noble, Harry James and others. Unfortunately, the only vocal version I had access to did *not* have the seque from the end of the first verse to the beginning of the second, so what you see here is a bit of a guess -- and a bit of a prayer. Some of you, from private correspondence, already know that I use chords because I can't pick a lead line to save my soul -- but I actually resort to that here.