Bill Bailey Wont You Please Come Home - Ella Fitzgerald Chords
Chords: G, Em, Am7, D7, Em7, A7, Dm7, G7, C, B7
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Genre: jazz, vocal, standards
| G Em | Am7 D7 | x2
[Verse 1]
G G G G
Won't you come home Bill Bailey? Won't you come home?
G Em Am7 D7 D7 D7 D7
Ah you've been away, too long
Am7 D7 Am7 D7
I do that cooking, honey, You just bring home the money
Am7 D7 Am7 D7 Em7 A7 Am7 D7
Bill Bailey, please come on home
G G G G
Each night when we sing this, We make an attempt to swing this
Dm7 Dm7 G7 G7 C B7 C C
We sing this song a different way, That's why I say
C C#dim G E7
Who knows like Mack the Knife, Ya may play this song all your life
Am7 D7 G G
So Bill Bailey, won't you come on home?
[Verse 2] [SPOKEN]
As Miss Sophie Tucker might say
G G G G
Won't you come home Bill Bailey? I say won't you come home?
G Em Am7 D7 D7 D7 D7
Oh, you've been away … Oh honey you've been away too long
Am7 D7 Am7 D7
I'll do that cooking honey, yes-ah. You just bring home the money
Am7 D7 Am7 D7 Em7 A7 Am7 D7
Some of these days, Bill. You're gonna come on home
G G G G
As Miss Della Reese might say. Won't you come home Bill Bailey?
I say won't you come home?
Dm7 Dm7 G7 G7 C B7 C C
I say you've been away, too long
C C#dim G E7
And as Miss Pearl Bailey might say, Bill honey, daddy youd better
bring it on home, Cause honey I'm just so tired of waiting on you
Am7 D7 G D7
Honey these shoes, I'm telling your baby it cant wait no longer
[Verse 3]
G G
… Yes I said, Won't you come, won't you come,
G G
Won't you come on home Bill Bailey?
Dm7 Dm7 G7 G7
I say youve been away too long
Am7 D7
Since youve been gone theres no stoppin
Am7 D7
To this thing they call bee-bopping.
Am7 D7 Am7 D7 Em7 A7 Am7 D7
So Bailey please come on home
G G G G
Now everybody twist it. I say everybody twist it.
Dm7 Dm7 G7 G7 C B7 C C
So Bailey please come home, no more to roam
C C#dim
Ive sung the lyrics to this song so long,
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