Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home

Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come - Ella Fitzgerald

Thank you you're very kind

Won't you come home Bill Bailey

Won't you come home

Ah you've been away too long

I do that cooking honey

You just bring home the money

Bill Bailey please come on home

Each night when we sing this

We're making an attempt to swing this

We sing this song a different way

That's why I say

Who knows like Mack the Knife

You may play this song all your life

So Bill Bailey won't you come on home

As Miss Sophie Tucker might say:

Won't you come home Bill Bailey

I say won't you come home

Oh you've been away

Oh honey you've been away too long

I'll do that cooking honey yes-ah

You just bring home the money

Some of these days Bill

You're gonna come on home

As Miss Della Reese might say:

Won't you come home Bill Bailey

I say won't you come home

I say you've been away too long

And as Miss Pearl Bailey might say:

Bill honey daddy you'd better bring it on home

Cause honey I'm just so tired of waiting on you

Honey these shoes

I I'm telling your baby it can't wait no longer

Yes I said

Won't you come won't you come

Won't you come on home Bill Bailey

I say you've been away too long

Since you've been gone there's no stopping

To this thing they call bee-bopping

So Bailey please come on home

Now everybody twist it

I say everybody twist it

So Bailey please come home no more to roam

I've sung the lyrics to this song so long

I guess it's time to say so long

So Bailey won't you come on home

Mama needs loving

Bill Bailey won't you come

Come home