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Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home - Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, May 5, 1963
Ella Fitzgerald
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Won't you come home, Bill Bailey?
Won't you come home?
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
All 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, please come on home?
As Miss Sophie Tucker might say
Won't you come home, Bill Bailey?
I say, won't you come home?
I say you've been away
Oh honey, you've been away too long
I'll do that cooking, honey
Yes, you just bring home the money
Sound more like Jimmy the Randy
Some of these days, Bill, you're gonna come on home
And 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, you've been away too long
And of course, Miss Pearl Bailey might say
Bill, honey, daddy, you'd better bring it on home
Ooh, honey, with these new funny shoes
Honey, it can't wait no longer
I say won't you come on home, come on home?
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
And as Mrs Diana Washington would say
Yes, won't you come home?
I say you've been away too long
Well I've sung the lyrics to this song so long
I guess it's time to say so long
So, Bailey, please come on home?
Mama needs loving
Bailey, wo-wo-won't you...
Wo-wo-won't you please-e-e go-go-go-go...
Co-co-come on home