[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?