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