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Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home chords by Georgia Brown

  • Em

  • D

  • G

  • Bm

    2
  • Fdim

    3
  • Am

  • C

  • E

  • A

  • F#

    2
  • C#dim

    4
  • F#dim

    4
  • Daug

  • F

  • Bb

Verse 1
Em
D
G
On a summer's day,
the sun was shining fine,
Bm
G
Lady Lajabah of Old Bill Bailey,
Bm
G
Hanging clothes upon a line,
Fdim
In her backyard,
G
D
Bm
Em
Am
and weeping hard.
D
G
She married a lorry driver,
who took and threw her down,
that's why she's hollering like
a crazy woman,
with a big mob hanging round.
Fdim
And to that crowd,
D
G
Bm
Em
she yelled out loud
C
G
D
G
D
G
E
Oh, won't you come home,
G
Bill Bailey,
won't you come home
D
E
G
Em
On the cold day long
A
D
A
I'll do the cookin',
D
darlin', I'll pay the rent
C
G
D
Bm
D
Bm
G
E
G
I know I've done you wrong,
Em
E
Em
F#
G
do you remember that rainy evening
E
G
I drove you out with nothing but
C
Am
C
a fine tooth comb?
C#dim
I know I'm to blame,
A
G
Fdim
now ain't that a big fat shame?
E
Am
Bill Bailey,
C
A
D
G
won't you please come home?
C
D
C
Em
G
C
Oh, won't you come home,
G
Bill, baby,
C
G
won't you come home?
Em
She moaned and groaned
E
and cried and sighed
Am
E
And wept and died the whole night long
Em
C
D
I'll do all the smoking,
C
D
darling, I'll pay the rent
F#dim
I know you know,
F#
Daug
F#
everybody else knows
G
The whole darn world
D
knows I got you wrong
G
But you remember that rainy evening
Em
G
I'll blow you out with nothing, nothing,
nothing, nothing, nothing
C
G
C
Nothing but a fire in his soul
C#dim
I know I'm a flame
G
Em
G
E
Now ain't that a big fat shame
Am
Bill Bailey,
C
Am
won't you please come William,
F
E
won't you please come
Am
William Bailey
C
D
C
G
Em
Come on, come on, come on, come on
G
C
Come on
Outro 1
Bb
C
Am
C
G
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