RED SILKEN STOCKINGS
(Peter Hart / Johnny Brandon)


Betty Driver - 1951
Alan Dean - 1951
The Stargazers - 1951
Alma Cogan - 1951


Put on your red silk stockings, pretty babe
Put on your red silk stockings, pretty babe
Just wear a red silken stocking
And you'll get the fellas flocking
Never fear, never fear, pretty babe
 
Put on your plumes and gaters, pretty babe
Put on your plumes and gaters, pretty babe
For if you wear plumes and gaters
There'll be no more peelin' taters
Learn to smile, live in style, pretty babe
 
And if you're itchin' to leave the kitchen
To the city far away you yearn to go
Just leave your home in dear ol' Wyoming
Loose your little local laddie
Find a daddy with some dough
 
Put on your red silk stockings, pretty babe
Put on your red silk stockings, pretty babe
And put some paint where your face is 
nd you'll go a lot of places
Never fear, never fear, pretty babe

(Instrumental Break)
 
(Put on your red silk stockings, pretty babe)
(Put on your red silk stockings, pretty babe)
Just wear a red silken stocking
And you'll get the fellas flocking
Never fear, never fear, pretty babe
 
And if you're longin' to do some wrongin'
To a life that's been so very, very slow
Just dress up brightly and stay out nightly
And forget what mama told ya
That is all you gotta know

Put on your red silk stockings, pretty babe
Put on your red silk stockings, pretty babe
And put some paint where your face is 
And you'll go a lot of places
Never fear, never fear, pretty babe
 
Yes, she did as she was told
Now she's worth her weight in gold
Red stockings and all, pretty babe






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2011)