She Wears Red Feathers

(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 furrom the sea

A rose in her hair a gleam in her eyes

And love in her heart for me

I worked in a London bank

Respectable position

From nine to three they serve you tea

But doom your disposition

Each night at the music hall

Travelogues I'd see

And once a pearl of a native girl

Kept smiling right at me

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 furrom 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 the 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 huly huly skirt

She wears red feathers and a huly huly skirt

She lives on just cocynuts and fish furrom 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 huly huly skirt

She wears red feathers and a huly huly skirt

She lives on just cocynuts and fish furrom the sea

A rose in her hair a gleam in her eyes

And love in her heart for me