Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore

Buttons and Bows
Music written by: Jay Livingston
Lyrics written by: Ray Evans
From the film "The Paleface" (1948) singer bob hope
(Jay Livingston / Ray Evans - Won Academy Award for "Best Song")

Buttons and Bows Lyrics

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 skirts that I've homespun
But I'll love ya' longer, stronger
Where your friends don't tote a gun

My bones denounce the buckboard bounce
And the cactus hurts my toes
Let's vamoose where gals keep a-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.....

Buttons and Bows Singers

* Bob Hope 1948
* Dinah Shore (billboard hit) 1948


* The Dinning Sisters - 1948 * Betty Garrett - 1948 * Betty Jane Rhodes - 1948 * Evelyn Knight - 1948 * Gene Autry (billboard hit) 1948 * Eddie Fisher - 1955 * Ray Conniff Singers - 1959 * Connie Francis - 1962 * The Bropwns - 1965 * David Grisman - 1999 * Michael Feinstein & Jay Livingstone - 2001.

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