====== #1138 - Bill Bailey ======
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  *Composer:
    *Hughie Cannon (1877-1912), 1902
  *Also known as:
    *Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
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  *[[:incipit]]: 56132355613
  *[[:incipit|Condensed Incipit]]: 5613235613
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
On one summer's day,\\
Sun was shining fine\\
The lady love of old Bill Bailey\\
Was hanging clothes on de line\\
In her back yard,\\
And weeping hard:\\
She married a B. & O. brakeman\\
Dat took and throw'd her down,\\
Bellering like a prune-fed calf,\\
With a big gang hanging round\\
And to that crowd,\\
She yelled out loud:\\
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Won't you come home, Bill Bailey\\
Won't you come home?\\
She moans de whole day long.\\
I'll do the cooking, darling,\\
I'll pay the rent;\\
I knows I've done you wrong;\\
'Member that rainy eve dat\\
I drove you out,\\
Wid nothing but a fine tooth comb?\\
I knows I'se to blame:\\
Well, ain't dat a shame?\\
Bill Bailey, won't you please come home.\\
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Bill drove by dat door\\
In an automobile\\
A great big diamond, coach and footman,\\
Hear dat big wench squeal.\\
"He's all alone,"\\
I heard her groan;\\
She hollered thro' that door\\
"Bill Bailey, is you sore?\\
Stop a minute; won't you listen to me?\\
Won't I see you no more?\\
Bill winked his eye\\
As he heard her cry:\\
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These lyrics are from 1902 sheet music for the song (giving the title as "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?"), a copy of which is held in the University of Maine Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection and may be viewed online at digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu\\
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    *Hughie Cannon (1877-1912), 1902