She wears red feathers
and a hooli -hooli skirt
She wears red feathers
and a hooli -hooli skirt
She lives on just cokie nuts
and fish fur on the sea
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes,
and love in her heart for me
I worked in a London bank,
respectable position
From nine to three they serve you tea,
but prune your disposition
Each night at the music hall,
travelogues I'd see
And once a pearl of a native girl
kept smiling right at me
She wears red feathers
and a hooli -hooli skirt
She wears red leathers
and a hooli -hooli skirt
She lives on just cokie nuts
and fish from the sea
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes,
and love in her heart for me
Goodbye to the London bank,
I started in the sailing
The fourteenth day from Mandalay,
I spied her from the railing
She knew I was on my 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 hooli -hooli skirt
She wears red feathers
and a hooli -hooli skirt
She lives on just cokey nuts
and fish fur on the sea
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes,
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 do it,
oh what a ceremony
An elephant brought her in,
placed her by my side
While six baboons got out 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
Walk down Pinker Dilly
The boys at the London Bank
Kind of hold their breath
She sit s with me and sips her tea
Which tickles them to death
She wears red feathers
And a holey, holey skirt
She wears red feathers
and a hooli -hooli skirt.
She lives on just coconuts
and fish from the sea.
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes,
and love in her heart for
me.