She wears red feathers
and a hooley, hooley skirt
She wears red feathers
and a hooley, hooley skirt
She lives on just coconuts
and fish from the sea
A rose in her hair
a gleam in her eye
and love in her heart for me
I worked in a London bank
respectable position
From nine to three
they serve you tea
but ruin your disposition
Each night at the music hall
travel loves I'd see
And once a pearl of a native girl
kept smiling right at me
She wears red feathers
and a hooley, hooley skirt
She wears red feathers
and a hooley, hooley skirt
She lives on just coconuts
and fish from the sea
A rose in her hair
a gleam in her eye
and love in her heart for me
Good-bye to the London bank
I started out a sailing
For fourteen days from
Mandalay
I spied her from the railings
She knew I was on the 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 hooley, hooley skirt
She wears red feathers
and a hooley, hooley skirt
She lives on just coconuts
and fish from the sea
A rose in her hair
a gleam in her eye
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
hit off 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
stroll down Piccadilly
The boys in the London bank
kind of hold their breath
She sits with me
and sips her tea
which tickles them to death
She wears red feathers
and a hooley, hooley skirt
She wears red feathers
and a hooley, hooley skirt
She lives on just coconuts
and fish from the sea
A rose in her hair
a gleam in her eye
and love in her heart for me