When a bee lies sleeping   In the palm of your hand   You're bewitched   And deep in love's long looked after land      Where you'll see a sun up sky   With a mornin' new   And where the days go laughin' by   As love comes callin' on you      Sleep on bee, don't waken   Can't believe what just passed   He's mine for the takin'   I am so happy at last      Maybe I dreams but he seems   Sweet golden as a crown      A sleepin' bee done told me   I will walk with my feet off the ground   When my one true love   I has found      Sleep on bee, don't waken   Cannot believe what just passed   He's mine for the takin'   I'm happy at last      Maybe I dreams but he seems   Golden as a crown      A sleepin' bee told me   I will walk with my feet off the ground   When my one true love   I has found