Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home - Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, May 5, 1963

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