Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home chords by Ella Fitzgerald

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: G+G

🎸 Intro:
  BPM:130
 G+G  E minorEm | Am7Am7  D7D7 : x2



🎸 Verse 1:
G+G         G+G        G+G        G+G
 Won't you come home Bill Bailey? Won't you come home?
G+G         E minorEm  Am7Am7  D7D7  D7D7  D7D7  D7D7
 Ah you've been away, too  long
Am7Am7     D7D7      Am7Am7        D7D7
 I do that cooking, honey
You just bring home the money
Am7Am7   D7D7  Am7Am7  D7D7   E minor 7Em7 A7A7 Am7Am7 D7D7
 Bill Bailey
please come on home
G+G       G+G       G+G          G+G
 Each night when we sing this
We make an attempt to swing this
Dm7Dm7   Dm7Dm7   G7G7   G7G7    C majorC  B7B7     C majorC   C majorC
 We sing this song a different way
That's why I say
  C majorC          C#dimC#dim     G+G       E7E7
Who knows like Mack the Knife
Ya may play this song all your life
  Am7Am7     D7D7        G+G   G+G
So Bill Bailey, won't you come on home?

🎸 Verse 2: SPOKEN:

As Miss Sophie Tucker might say

G+G         G+G        G+G        G+G
  Won't you come home Bill Bailey? I say won't you come home?
G+G          E minorEm  Am7Am7  D7D7  D7D7  D7D7  D7D7
  Oh, you've been away … Oh honey you've been away too long
Am7Am7     D7D7      Am7Am7        D7D7
 I'll do that cooking honey, yes-ah. You just bring home the money
Am7Am7   D7D7  Am7Am7  D7D7   E minor 7Em7 A7A7 Am7Am7 D7D7
  Some of these days
Bill. You're gonna come on home
G+G       G+G         G+G          G+G
As Miss Della Reese might say. Won't you come home Bill Bailey?
I say won't you come home?
Dm7Dm7   Dm7Dm7   G7G7   G7G7    C majorC  B7B7     C majorC   C majorC
I say you've been away, too long
C majorC          C#dimC#dim     G+G       E7E7
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
  Am7Am7     D7D7                G+G      D7D7
Honey these shoes
I'm telling your baby it cant wait no longer

🎸 Verse 3:
       G+G        G+G
… Yes I said
Won't you come, won't you come
G+G      G+G
Won't you come on home Bill Bailey?
Dm7Dm7   Dm7Dm7   G7G7   G7G7
I say youve been away too long
Am7Am7       D7D7
Since youve been gone theres no stoppin
Am7Am7        D7D7
To this thing they call bee-bopping.
Am7Am7 D7D7  Am7Am7 D7D7     E minor 7Em7 A7A7 Am7Am7 D7D7
 So Bailey please come on home
G+G       G+G         G+G          G+G
Now everybody twist it. I say everybody twist it.
Dm7Dm7   Dm7Dm7   G7G7   G7G7    C majorC  B7B7     C majorC   C majorC
So Bailey please come home, no more to roam
C majorC              C#dimC#dim
Ive sung the lyrics to this song so long
G+G          E7E7
I guess its time to say so long
  Am7Am7     D7D7                G+G      E7E7
So Bailey, won't you come on home? Mama needs loving!
  Am7Am7     D7D7                G+G   D7D7  G7G7
Biiii-hi-iiill
Baaaa-ha-aaailey, won't you come
Come home