Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey
Based on the song by Hughie Cannon
New words & music by John Forster, Michael Mark & Tom Chapin
© 2005 Limousine Music Co., HCD Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

Won’t you come home Bill Bailey?
Won’t you come home?
You’ve played all afternoon.
Your dinner’s on the table. It’s gettin’ cold.
You’d better get home soon.
I want to see the homework you said you did
And check it with a fine-tooth comb.
Well you’ve had your fun, now fun-time is done.
Bill Bailey, get yourself back home.

Later. I’m coming home later.
I promise that if I go to someone’s house
I’ll keep in touch.
Got friends to see today, got games I have to play,
Marco Polo, Kick the Can and Double Dutch.
Did most of my homework,
’Cause when I get back I know you’ll
Check it with a fine-tooth comb.
I’m off to play Hide-and-Seek,
It’ll probably take me a week.
But after that I’ll come back home.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Some Assembly Required CD.

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