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Sheet music: Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home
1902réf. 588832New York: Howley Haviland & Dresser 1902. Softcover. Good. First edition. Cover illustration by Dewey. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. The outer bifolium is separated along the fold but both leaves are present edgewear and rubbing to the exterior a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano written in dialect. Plate imprint "Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home" Contains samples of "She's Sleeping By the Silv'ry Rio Grande" "You Give Me Your Love and I'll Give You Mine" "You Were Never Introduced to Me" and "Things Ain't The Same Babe I'm Coming Home." The front cover features a photograph of The Mozart Comedy Four. "Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home" sometimes referred to as just "Bill Bailey" was a popular song in its time and beyond being recorded by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald Bobby Darin and others and even appearing in an episode of The Simpsons sung by Grandpa Simpson posing as a cabaret performer. Howley, Haviland & Dresser unknown
