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