Standards
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home chords & key
- Key
- G major
- Form
- AA
- Bars
- 34
- Groove
- Medium slow
- Time signature
- 4/4
“Baby, Won't You Please Come Home” is a jazz standard by Warfield-Williams. Most bands play it in G major, medium slow; the tune runs 34 bars in AA form. In this atlas it appears on 14 album tracks and in 3 transcribed solos.
Chord changes
Showing in: Concert (C) — G major
Changes as commonly played (concert pitch). Your band's version may differ.
Harmonic analysis
Most used chords
- B7×9
- A7×9
- G×7
- E7×7
- D7×6
- Em×2
Recorded on these albums
| 1949 | Souvenir Album Ella Fitzgerald · “Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home” |
| 1957 | Where Are You? Frank Sinatra with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra · “Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home” |
| 1957 | Stormy Weather Lena Horne · “Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home?” |
| 1959 | Last Recording Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra · “Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home” |
| 1959 | Welcome to the Club Nat King Cole |
| 1963 | Seven Steps to Heaven Miles Davis · “Baby Won't You Please Come Home” |
| 1964 | Dream With Dean: The Intimate Dean Martin Dean Martin · “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home” |
| 1966 | The Dean Martin TV Show Dean Martin · “Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home” |
| 1973 | You’re the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me Dean Martin · “Baby Won’t You Please Come On” |
| 2002 | Alone in the City Ray Charles · “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home” |
| 2002 | Alone in the City Ray Charles · “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home” |
| 2005 | Soul & Blues Ray Charles · “Baby Won’t Yo Please Come Home” |
| 2005 | Ray Charles - Great Moments 9 Ray Charles · “Baby Won't You Please Come Home” |
| — | The Collection Ray Charles · “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home” |
Transcribed solos on Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
| Henry Allen trumpet | 212 BPM |
| J.C. Higginbotham trombone | 210 BPM |
| Sidney Bechet soprano saxophone | 207 BPM |
Historic 78 rpm recordings
- BABY WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME SVEND ASMUSSEN'S KVARTET · Svend Asmussen · Svend Hauberg · Johan… archive.org ↗
- BABY, WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME JIMMY LUNCEFORD & HIS ORCH. · Joe Thomas · Warfield · Williams · 1939 archive.org ↗
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home LaVere's Chicago Loopers · Joe Venuti · Billy May · Artie Shapiro ·… · 1944 archive.org ↗
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home The All Star Stompers · Bertha "Chippie" Hill · Wild Bill Davison ·… · 1947 archive.org ↗
- BABY, WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME JERI SULLIVAN · The Les Baxter Quintet and Johnny White's Orchestra… · 1948 archive.org ↗
Standards with similar changes
Similarity of the chord progression, independent of key.
Frequently asked questions
What key is Baby, Won't You Please Come Home in?
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home is usually played in G major. For B♭ instruments that is A major, for E♭ instruments E major.
Who wrote Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home was written by Warfield-Williams.
What is the form of Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home has 2 sections (AA) with 34 bars in total.
How fast is Baby, Won't You Please Come Home played?
The usual groove is Medium slow. Transcribed solos in our data were played at 212 BPM, 210 BPM and 207 BPM.
What are the chord changes to Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
The opening bars are G B7 | E7 | A7 | A7. The full chart above can be transposed to any key.