Key: D major
Verse 1
Eb
B
Eb
(She wears red feathers and
Fm
a hooly-hooly skirt)
Ab
(She wears red feathers and
Eb
a hooly-hooly skirt)
Ab
Eb
She lives on just cokey-nuts
and fish from the sea
Cm
Eb
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes
Bb
And love in her heart for me
Eb
Cm
Eb
Verse 2
I work in a London bank,
Bb
respectable position
Eb
From nine to three they serve you tea
F
Bb
But ruin your disposition
Ab
Fm
Each night at the music hall,
Eb
travelogues I see
Ab
Eb
And once a pearl of a native girl
Fm
Bb
Eb
came smilin' right at me
Verse 3
Eb
She wears red feathers and
a hooly-hooly skirt
skirt
Ab
Fm
Ab
She wears red feathers and
Eb
a hooly-hooly skirt
skirt
Ab
Eb
She lives on just cokey-nuts
and fish from the sea
Cm
Eb
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes
Ab
Eb
And love in her heart for me
Cm
Fm
Eb
Verse 4
Goodbye to the London bank,
Bb
I started in a-sailin'
Eb
The The fourteenth day from Mandalay
F
Bb
I spied her from the railin'
Ab
Fm
She knew I was on my way,
Eb
waited, and was true
Ab
Eb
She said "You son of an Englishman,
Fm
Bb
Eb
I've dreamed each night of you"
Verse 5
Eb
She wears red feathers and
a hooly-hooly skirt
Ab
skirt
Fm
Ab
She wears red feathers and
Eb
a hooly-hooly skirt
skirt
Ab
Eb
She lives on just cokey-nuts
and fish from the sea
Cm
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes
Fm
Bb
And love in her heart for me
Eb
Cm
Fm
Eb
Verse 6
I went to her Ma and Pa
F
and said I loved her only
Bb
Eb
And they both said we could be wed,
F
Bb
oh, what a ceremony
Ab
An elephant brought her in,
Eb
placed her by my side
Ab
Eb
Fm
While six baboons got out bassoons and played
Bb
Eb
"Here Comes the Bride"
E
B
Verse 7
E
C#m
E
I'm back here in London town and,
F#m
B
though it may sound silly
E
She's here with me and you should
F#
B
see us walk down Picadilly
F#m
A
F#m
A
F#m
The boys at the Lon don bank
E
G#m
C#m
kinda hold their breath
Caug
E
G#m
She sits with me and sips her
F#m
B
E
tea which tickles them to death
Verse 8
E
She wears red feathers and
a hooly-hooly skirt
F#m
skirt
She wears red feathers and
E
B
a hooly-hooly skirt
F#m
E
skirt
A
E
She lives on just cokey-nuts
and fish from the sea
C#m
G#m
E
Fdim
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes
C#
F#m
C#m
F#m
And love (and love) in her
B
Adim
E
heart (in her heart) for me
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