The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #160090   Message #3795461
Posted By: Richie
13-Jun-16 - 10:17 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Drowsy Sleeper
Subject: RE: Origins: Drowsy Sleeper
Hi,

A single stanza entitled "Wake Up" was printed in the 1855 Social Harp, p. 155 as by John G. McCurry of Georgia, 1852:

Wake up, wake up, ye drowsy sleepers,
O wake, O wake for it's almost day!
How can you lie there and sleep and slumber,
When your true love is going away?

Richie