| Pack up all my cares and woe, here I go, singing low,
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| Bye-bye Blackbird.
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| Where somebody waits for me, sugar’s sweet, so is she,
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| Bye-bye Blackbird.
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| No one here can love and understand me.
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| Oh, what hard-luck stories they all hand me.
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| Make my bed and light the light
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| I’ll arrive late tonight,
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| Blackbird, Bye-bye.
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| No one here can love and understand me.
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| Oh, what hard-luck stories they all hand me.
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| Make my bed and light the light
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| I’ll arrive late tonight,
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| Blackbird, Bye-bye.
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| Won’t you come home, bill bailey, won’t you come home
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| She moans the whole day long
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| I’ll do the cookin', honey, I’ll pay the rent
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| I know I’ve done you wrong
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| Remember that rainy evenin'
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| I threw you out… with nothin' but a fine tooth comb
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| I know I’m to blame, now… ain’t it a shame
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| Bill bailey, won’t you please come home
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| Won’t you come home, bill bailey, won’t you come home
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| She moans that whole day long
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| I’ll do the cookin' darlin', I’ll even pay the rent
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| I know, I’ve done you wrong
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| Remember that rainy evenin'
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| I drove you out, with nothin but a fine tooth comb
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| I know I’m to blame, ain’t that a shame
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| Bill Baily won’t you please come
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| Ma, he’s making eyes at me
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| Ma, he’s awful nice to me
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| Ma, he’s almost breaking my heart
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| I’m beside him
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| Mercy, let his conscience guide him
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| Ma, he wants to marry me
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| Be my honey bee
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| Every minute he gets bolder
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| Now he’s leaning on my shoulder
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| Ma, he’s kissing me
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| Every minute he gets bolder
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| Now he’s leaning on my shoulder
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| Ma, he’s kissing me
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| Oh! |
| You beautiful doll
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| You great big beautiful doll
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| Let me put my arms about you
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| I could never live without you
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| Oh! |
| You beautiful doll
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| You great big beautiful doll
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| If you ever leave me how my heart would ache?
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| I wanna hug you but I’m scared you’d break
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| Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you beautiful doll
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| Oh! |
| You beautiful doll
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| You great big beautiful doll
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| Let me put my arms about you?
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| I just could never live without you
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| Oh! |
| You beautiful doll
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| You great big beautiful doll
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| If you’d ever leave me how my heart would ache?
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| I wanna hug you but I’m scared you’d break
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| Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you beautiful doll
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| Come on and hear! |
| Come on and hear! |
| Alexander’s ragtime band!
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| Come on and hear! |
| Come on and hear! |
| It’s the best band in the land!
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| They can play a bugle call like you never heard before
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| So natural that you want to go to war
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| It’s just the bestest band what am, honey lamb
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| Come on along, come on along, let me take you by the hand
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| Up to the man, up to the man, who’s the leader of the band
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| And if you care to hear the Swanee River played in ragtime
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| Come on and hear, come on and hear,
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| Alexander’s Ragtime Band.
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| Come on along, come on along, let me take you by the hand
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| Up to the man, up to the man, who’s the leader of the band
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| And if you want to hear ol' Swanee River played in ragtime
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| Come on and hear, come on and hear,
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| Alexander’s Ragtime Band. |