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Thread #39644   Message #2781486
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-Dec-09 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: She Looks Helen Brown (Fisher, Rose)
Subject: Lyr Req: SHE LOOKS LIKE HELEN BROWN (Fisher, Rose)
I found one verse in 2 books:
Dear George: Advice & Answers from America's Leading Expert on Everything by George Burns (Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1986, ©1985), page 158; and
The Most of George Burns by George Burns (New York: Galahad Books, 1991), page 745:


SHE LOOKS LIKE HELEN BROWN
Fred Fisher and Billy Rose

Oh, she looks like Helen Brown.
She's the best-dressed gal in town.
Got the skin you love to touch.
Never lets you touch it much.
Oh, she won a beauty crown
In her new red satin gown.
She knocked the boys dead
When she wore red
But she looked like Helen Brown.

[These lyrics from International Lyrics Playground:]

................, and how.
There he met a dame
Who took his watch and chain.
Well, to the sheriff he went right away,
Said "You gotta find that gal today."
When they asked him how she looked,
They all heard him say:

Oh, she looks like Helen Brown.
Oh, she looks like Helen Brown:
Rosy cheeks and eyes of blue.
When she smiles, I'm tellin' you
She looks like Helen Brown.
She's the hottest gal in town.
When she goes by, the boys all cry:
She looks like Helen Brown.

She looks like Helen Brown.
Yes, she looks like Helen Brown.
When she's dressed in green or gray,
Scotsmen throw their dough away.
She looks like Helen Brown.
She's the hottest gal in town.
Oh, she looks all right when she's dressed in white,
But she looks like Helen Brown.

(Oh, she looks like Helen Brown.) And how!
She looks like Helen Brown.
When that baby starts to strut,
Ev'rybody loves her, but—
(She looks like Helen Brown.) Yes sir!
She's the hottest gal in town.
She knocks 'em dead dressed up in red,
But she looks like Helen Brown.

[Recorded by:
Paul Specht & His Orchestra, Columbia 997 d, 3/23/27.
Ross Gorman & His Virginians, Harmony 372-H, 2/2/27.
Pete Daily's Chicagoans, Capitol 57-60008, 1949.
Oregon Jazz Band, LP, "Saloon Serenade", 197-?
Norrie Cox & His New Orleans Stompers, "Live at the Illiana", 2002.
And several others.]