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