The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #114400 Message #2442769
Posted By: Art Thieme
17-Sep-08 - 01:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
Huey Cannon wrote this song. Sarah Segris was the woman who stood outside the saloon and yelled in for her man, Willard Bailey, to come home. It seems that the women, or this woman, anyhow, weren't supposed to go inside and make a ruckus for some reason. Cannon got sick of hearing here yelling for her Bill to come home----i.e. this song.
This was all told to me by Howard Armstrong (from the black band Martin, Bogan and Armstrong) who knew all the folks involved.