BUTTONS AND BOWS
From the film "The Paleface" (1948)
(Jay Livingston / Ray Evans - Won Academy Award for "Best Song")

Recordings: Bob Hope - 1948
Dinah Shore - 1948
The Dinning Sisters - 1948
Betty Garrett - 1948
Betty Jane Rhodes - 1948
Evelyn Knight - 1948
Gene Autry - 1948
etc.*


East is east and west is west
And the wrong one I have chose.
Let's go where they keep on wearin'
Those frills and flowers and buttons and bows,
Rings and things and buttons and bows.

Don't bury me in this prairie,
Take me where the cement grows.
Let's move down to some big town
Where they love a gal by the cut o' her clothes,
And I'll stand out, in buttons and bows.

I'll love you in buckskin
Or a shirt that I've homespun,
But I'll love you longer, stronger
Where yer friends don't tote a gun.

My bones denounce the buckboard bounce
And the cactus hurts my toes.
Let's vamoose where gals keep usin'
Those silks and satins and linen that shows,
And I'm all yours in buttons and bows.

Gimme eastern trimmin' where women are women
In high silk hose and peek-a-boo clothes
And French perfume that rocks the room
And I'm all yours in buttons and bows.

Buttons and bows, buttons and bows.....


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*[Note: Interesting historical observation about how common it was in the US in the 1940s and early 1950s to have multiple artists recording, and even "charting" with, the same song.]