She Wears Red Feathers

. . . and a Huly Huly Skirt
A popular song from 1952.
Words and music by Bob Merrill.

Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:

She-Wears-Red-Feathers – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

She_Wears_Red_Feathers – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

Chorus
She wears red feathers
And a huly huly skirt
She wears red feathers
And a huly huly skirt
She lives on just cocynuts
And fish from the sea
A rose in her hair
A gleam in her eyes
And love in her heart for me

  1. I work’d in a London bank
    Respectable position
    From nine to three they serve you tea
    But ruin your disposiishun
    Each night in the Music Hall
    Travelogs I’d see
    And once a pearl of a native girl
    Kept smilin’ right at me
  2. Goodbye to the London bank
    I started in a sailin’
    The fourteenth day from Mandalay
    I spied her from the raailin’
    She knew I was on my way
    Waited and was true
    She said, “You son of an Englishmon
    I’ve dreamed each night of you
  3. I went to her ma and pa
    And said I loved her only
    And they both said we could be wed
    Oh, what a ceremoony
    An elephant brought her in
    Placed her by my side
    While six baboons got out bassoons
    And played “Here comes the bride”
  4. I’m back in London town
    And tho’ it may sound silly
    She’s here with me and you should see
    Us walk down Piccadiilly
    The boys at the London bank
    Kind o’ hold their breath
    She sits with me and sips her tea
    Which tickles them to death

Sung here by Vancha March: