Baby Won't You Please Come Home

Written by: Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams

Trivia    UCLA Library 1 - Has a picture of the original sheet music.

Recorded In New York, RCA Studio A on May 19, 1961 by Hugo Perett And Luigi Creatore

Orchestra Arranged and Conducted by Sammy Lowe

Musicians:    Morris Wechsler - piano

Albums:   The Legendary Sam Cooke    -    The Man Who Invented Soul (Box)     -    My Kind Of Blues    -    The Rhythm and the Blues

Lyrics

Baby won't you please come home
cause your bed is alone
I have tried so hard in vain
Nevermore to call your name.
When you left, you broke my heart,
oh darling why do have to part.
Every hour in the day you can hear me say,
Baby, won't you please come home?

I mean, baby, won't you please come home?
cause  your dad is so alone
I tried so hard in vain
nevernomore to call you name
now when you left me you just broke my heart
why did we have to part
every hour in the day
people way across the street
if you loved me you better come home

Notable other version

• Henry "Red" Allen
• Ray Anthony
• Louis Armstrong
• Count Basie
• Brooke Benton
• Big Maybelle
• Teresa Brewer
• Cab Calloway
• Ray Charles
• Nat King Cole
• Bing Crosby
• Vic Damone
• Miles Davis
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Benny Goodman
• Lionel Hampton
• Billie Holiday
• Ben E King
• Gene Krupa,
• Wynton Marsalis
• Dean Martin,
• The Mills Brothers
• Rick Nelson
• Les Paul & Mary Ford
• Louis Prima
• Tito Puente
• Django Reinhardt
• Frank Sinatra
• Bessie Smith
• Sarah Vaughan