Joe Glazer – Bill Bailey The Ultimate Sectarian Chord Progression on Piano & Ukulele

[Verse 1]
D                                                
Bill Bailey belonged to every radical party
     G            D
 that ever came to be,
D                                              
Till he finally decided to start his own party
      A
 so he wouldn't disagree.
D                                                           G                           D
He got himself an office with a sign

 outside the door, 

 with "Marxist League" in letters red,
D                                    
And to everyone who came around these
 A
 were the words he said:	

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[Chorus]
D
"Oh, you may be a friend of Max Shachtman,

 Jim Cannon and you may agree,
G                     
You may get along with 
                                 D
Norman Thomas and with Algernon Lee
D                             
You may be an old-time Wobbly,
     G                     D
 and think Jay Lovestone's fine,
D                                               
Yes, you may be a comrade to all of these folks,
 A                          D
 but you ain't no Comrade of mine."
	

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[Verse 2]
D                                        
For 17 years Bill Bailey kept his office 
         G               D
with the sign outside the door,
D                                   
But he never, ever got a new member.
 A
 Everybody made him sore.
D                                        
And then one night, there came a big fire
     G                     D
 and through the flame and smoke,
D                                            
As the firemen rushed in to save Bill's life,
       A
 these were the words he spoke:

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[Chorus]
D
"Oh, you may be a friend of Ben Gitlow;

 Reverend Muste and you may agree,
G                                                    D
You may get along with Emma Goldman and with the S.L.P..
D                                           
You may have belonged to every radical party
      G          D
 that ever had a line,
D                                               
Yes, you may be a comrade to all of those folks,
 A                          D
 but you ain't no comrade of mine."

[Verse 3]
D                                           
And so on this day, Bill Bailey passed away,
         G                  D
 and his soul to Red Heaven flew.
D                                      
He was met at the gate by old Karl Marx
 A
 and Friedrich Engels(13), too.
D                             
They said, "Welcome, comrade,"
                            G                D
 as they opened the gate to let Bill come inside,
D                                               
As he slammed the door back in old Karl's face,
      A
 these were the words he cried:

D
"Oh, you may be a friend of Karl Kautsky,

 and a pal of Ferd LaSalle,
G                                        
You may get along with William Liebknecht
                          D
 and the First Internationale,
D                                             
Yes, you may have inspired every radical party
          G             D
 from the Hudson to the Rhine,
D                                              
Oh, you may be a comrade of all of those folks,
  A                         D
 but you ain't no comrade of mine."