When Old Bill Bailey Plays The Ukelele 1915

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Mar 2008
2008

In Honolulu Town
a man known miles around
has turned things upside down
they call him old Bill Bailey.
Bill Bailey won his fame
with his old guitar
Ukelele is its name
in that land afar
the ships 'way out at sea
can hear his melody.

When Old Bill Bailey
plays the ukelele
down in Honolulu
they do the 'Hula Hula'
ev'ry evening there they are,
swayin' while he's playin'
his Hawaiian guitar
the ragtime motion
even has the ocean
bobbin' up and down,
sometimes a whale gets feeling flip
wags his tail and sinks a battle ship
when Old Bill Bailey
plays the ukelele
down in Honolulu town.

Old Bill Bailey
plays the ukelele
down in Honolulu
they do the 'Hula Hula'
ev'ry evening there they are,
swayin' while he's playin'
his Hawaiian guitar
the ragtime motion
even has the ocean
bobbin' up and down,
sometimes a whale gets feeling flip
wags his tail and sinks a battle ship
when Old Bill Bailey
plays the ukelele
down in Honolulu town.

Some suffragettes went down
to Honolulu town,
among those gals of brown
they tried a 'Suffrage Movement'
The meetings that they held
never lasted long
Old Bill Bailey broke them up
when he played a song,
for Suffrage they don't care
there's other 'Movements' there.

When Old Bill Bailey
plays the ukelele
down in Honolulu
they do the 'Hula Hula'
ev'ry evening there they are,
swayin' while he's playin'
his Hawaiian guitar
the ragtime motion
even has the ocean
bobbin' up and down,
sometimes a whale gets feeling flip
wags his tail and sinks a battle ship
when Old Bill Bailey
plays the ukelele
down in Honolulu town.

Old Bill Bailey
plays the ukelele
down in Honolulu
they do the 'Hula Hula'
ev'ry evening there they are,
swayin' while he's playin'
his Hawaiian guitar
the ragtime motion
even has the ocean
bobbin' up and down,
sometimes a whale gets feeling flip
wags his tail and sinks a battle ship
when Old Bill Bailey
plays the ukelele
down in Honolulu town.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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When Old Bill Bailey Plays The Ukelele 1915
Words & Music by Chas.McCarron & Nat. Vincent
© MCMXV by Broadway Mus.Corp. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 22 March 2008 at 15.35
in association with Veda Meyer-Costens
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