She Wears Red Feathers-Guy Mitchell/Frankie laine

[ti:She Wears Red Feathers] [ar:Guy Mitchell] [al:British Singles Chart - Week Ending 17 April 1953] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]She Wears Red Feathers - Guy Mitchell/Frankie laine [00:05.09]She wears red feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt [00:09.08] [00:09.82]She wears red feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt [00:13.73] [00:14.62]She lives on just cokey-nuts [00:16.38] [00:17.30]And fish from the sea [00:18.63] [00:19.40]A rose in her hair a gleam in her eyes [00:22.10]And love in her heart for me [00:23.64] [00:28.56]I work in a London bank [00:30.65] [00:31.42]Respectable position [00:32.86] [00:33.85]From nine to three they serve you tea [00:36.31]But ruin your disposition [00:37.71] [00:38.67]Each night of music calls [00:40.03] [00:41.06]Rather lost I seem [00:42.46] [00:43.29]And once a pearl of a native [00:45.52]Girl came smilin' right at me [00:47.34] [00:48.18]She wears red feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt [00:52.00] [00:52.86]She wears red feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt [00:56.67] [00:57.59]She lives on just cokey-nuts [00:59.36] [01:00.34]And fish from the sea [01:01.58] [01:02.43]A rose in her hair a gleam in her eyes [01:05.37]And love in her heart for me [01:07.11] [01:11.84]Goodbye to the London bank [01:14.51]I started in a-sailin' [01:15.46] [01:16.94]The fourteenth day from [01:18.74]Mandalay I spied her from the railin' [01:20.94] [01:21.73]She knew I was on my way waited [01:25.01]And was true [01:26.46]She said "You son of an Englishman [01:28.53]I've dreamed each night of you" [01:30.64] [01:31.31]She wears red feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt [01:35.16] [01:36.06]She wears red feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt [01:39.91] [01:40.76]She lives on just cokey-nuts [01:42.98]And fish from the sea [01:44.65] [01:45.53]A rose in her hair a gleam in her eyes [01:48.14]And love in her heart for me [01:50.36] [01:55.14]I went to her Ma and Pa and [01:57.31] [01:57.93]Said I loved her only [01:59.23] [02:00.17]And they both said we could be wed [02:02.41]Oh what a ceremony [02:03.76] [02:05.00]An elephant brought her in [02:06.83] [02:07.90]Placed her by my side [02:09.75]While six baboons got out bassoons [02:12.13]And played "Here Comes the Bride" [02:13.64] [02:19.16]I'm back here in London town and [02:21.90]Though it may sound silly [02:23.66] [02:24.20]She's here with me and you [02:25.85]Should see us walk down Picadilly [02:28.05] [02:29.03]The boys at the London bank [02:31.52]Kinda hold their breath [02:33.20] [02:33.79]She sits with me and sips [02:35.59]Her tea which tickles them to death [02:37.56] [02:38.52]She wears red feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt [02:42.41] [02:43.38]She wears red feathers and a hooly-hooly skirt [02:47.17] [02:48.10]She lives on just cokey-nuts [02:50.39]And fish from the sea [02:52.04] [02:52.98]A rose in her hair a gleam in her eyes [02:55.83]And love in her heart [02:58.43] [03:00.07]For me