She Wears Red Feathers lyrics

Artist  : Guy Mitchell 
Song : She Wears Red Feathers
 


She Wears Red Feathers
Guy Mitchell
Written
by Bob Merrill

- Peaked at # 19 in
1953


(She wears red feathers and a
hooly-hooly skirt)
(She wears red feathers and
a hooly-hooly skirt)
She lives on just
cokey-nuts and fish from the sea
A rose in her
hair, a gleam in her eyes
And love in her
heart for me

I work in a London bank,
respectable position
From nine to three they
serve you tea
But ruin your
disposition
Each night of music calls, rather
lost I seem
And once a pearl of a native girl
came smilin' right at me

She wears red
feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt
She wears red
feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt
She lives on
just cokey-nuts and fish from the sea
A rose
in her hair, a gleam in her eyes
And love in
her heart for me

Goodbye to the London
bank, I started in a-sailin'
The fourteenth
day from Mandalay I spied her from the
railin'
She knew I was on my way, waited, and
was true
She said "You son of an Englishman,
I've dreamed each night of you"

She wears
red feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt
She wears
red feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt
She lives
on just cokey-nuts and fish from the sea
A
rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes
And love
in her heart for me

I went to her Ma and
Pa and said I loved her only
And they both
said we could be wed, oh, what a ceremony
An
elephant brought her in, placed her by my
side
While six baboons got out bassoons and
played "Here Comes the Bride"

I'm back
here in London town and, though it may sound
silly
She's here with me and you should see us
walk down Picadilly
The boys at the London
bank kinda hold their breath
She sits with me
and sips her tea which tickles them to
death

She wears red feathers and a
hooly-hooly skirt
She wears red feathers and a
hooly-hooly skirt
She lives on just cokey-nuts
and fish from the sea
A rose in her hair, a
gleam in her eyes
And love (and love) in her
heart (in her heart) for me