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

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: G

🎸 Intro:
   BPM:130
  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
G                   E7
I guess its time to say so long
    Am7         D7                               G           E7
So Bailey, won't you come on home? Mama needs loving!
    Am7         D7                               G      D7   G7
Biiii-hi-iiill
Baaaa-ha-aaailey, won't you come
Come home