SHE WEARS RED FEATHERS
Guy Mitchell


(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 



(Contributed by boB Cartlidge - December 2002)