The sheet music can be viewed at Mississippi State University. (Click for a PDF.) Here's my transcription:


WHIPPOORWILL
Words and music by Cal De Voll
Chicago: Forster Music Pub. Inc., ©1930.

1. Ev'ry night I close my eyes and off to Paradise I stray,
Dreaming dreams of yesterday.
Seems I hear a whippoorwill upon a hill so far away
Calling me; that's why I say:

CHORUS: There's a whippoorwill sweetly singing in the pale moonlight:
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill,
And he's singing a song that makes me long for home tonight,
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill.
He's singing 'bout the honeysuckle 'round a cabin door.
Seems he's saying someone's praying you'll come back once more.
There's a whippoorwill sweetly singing in the pale moonlight.
Now I know I must go, whippoorwill.

2. Though I've heard a lot of melodies, just one of these I know;
Haunts me ev'rywhere I go.
It's a little whippoorwill's sweet song when evening breezes blow,
Calling me so sweet and low: CHORUS