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