Guy Mitchell She Wears Red Feathers Lyrics

She Wears Red Feathers Lyrics

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