Lyr Req: She Wears Red Feathers (Bob Merrill)

Subject: red feathers
From: TheOldMole
Date: 12 Jun 00 - 01:46 PM

Someone who thinks I know everything asked me for a song that contains the line, "She wore red feathers and a hooey-hooey skirt." (Maybe hoolie-hoolie? or hula-hula?)

But I don't know everything.

Any ideas?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: red feathers
From: Pene Azul
Date: 12 Jun 00 - 01:54 PM

Looks like it's She Wore Red Feathers, sung by Guy Mitchell. There's a reference to the song in this obituary (click).

PA

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: red feathers
From: Pene Azul
Date: 12 Jun 00 - 01:57 PM

The lyrics are here(click).

PA

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: red feathers
From: TheOldMole
Date: 12 Jun 00 - 02:47 PM

Thanks....Guy Mitchell sounds right...the guy said he'd heard the song around 1951.

Subject: Lyr Add: SHE WEARS RED FEATHERS (from Guy Mitchell
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 10:07 PM

Lyrics copied from http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/s/shewearsredfeathers.html with additional info from http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?id=8342

SHE WEARS RED FEATHERS
Recorded by Guy Mitchell
Written by Bob Merrill
- Peaked at # 19 in 1953

CHORUS: She wears red feathers and a huly-huly skirt.
She wears red feathers and a huly-huly skirt.
She lives on just cokey-nuts and fish from the sea,
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes,
And love in her heart for me.

I work in a London bank, respectable position.
From nine to three, they serve you tea
But ruin your disposition.
Each night at the music halls, travelogues I'd see,
And once a pearl of a native girl kept smilin' right at me. CHORUS

Goodbye to the London bank. I started in a-sailin'.
The fourteenth day from Mandalay, I spied her from the railin'.
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." CHORUS

I went to her Ma and Pa and said I loved her only,
And they both said we could be wed. 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 Picadilly.
The boys at the London bank kinda hold their breath.
She sits with me and sips her tea, which tickles them to death. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: red feathers
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Apr 04 - 03:44 AM

The link in

Pene Azul - PM
Date: 12 Jun 00 - 01:57 PM
now returns
http://www.matrix.com.br/404_Not_Found/

Any info on a tune/chords?

This was one of my father's favourites. His close friend used to have a 78 of it. They are both gone now - many years ago.

Robin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: red feathers
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 12:04 AM

up the top you go...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: red feathers
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 01:02 AM

THE LYRICS ARE HERE CLICKABLE LINK - SHE NO WORKIE!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: red feathers
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 01:09 AM

The lyrics are already in this thread above.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: red feathers
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 01:54 AM

the fact that the lyrics are listed above has absolutely nothing
to do with the fact that the clickie DONT WORK !!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: She Wears Red Feathers (Bob Merrill)
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 19 - 02:48 PM

probably the PC people - 15 years on