Sleepy Eyed Boy

[Verse 1]

Where are the bootstraps

To lift myself up?

Where is the well

Where I once filled my cup?

Where does this sorrow

All turn into joy?

And where oh where is the sleepy eyed boy?

[Verse 2]

Where is my true love

When the wind starts to moan?

Is he out in the wild

Is he there all alone?

Have I cast him aside

Like an unwanted toy?

Tell me wherе oh where is my sleepy eyеd boy?

[Verse 3]

He's goin' down to backroads

In a cold pourin' rain

He's waitin' for a postcard

In the warm coast of Spain

Postmarked from a sweetheart

Back in old Illinois

Sayin' where oh where is my sleepy eyed boy?

[Verse 4]

Where are the bootstraps

To lift myself up?

Where is the well

Where I once filled my cup?

Where does this sorrow

All turn into joy?

And where oh where is my sleepy eyed boy?