Buttons and Bows - Bob Hope

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

A Western ranch is just a branch
Of Nowhere Junction to me
Give me the city, where living’s pretty
And the gals wear finery

East is east and west is west
And the wrong one I have chose
Let’s go where you’ll 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 of her clothes
And you’ll stand out in buttons and bows

I’ll love you in buckskin
Or skirts that you’ve homespun
But I’ll love you 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 usin’
Those silks and satins and linen that shows
And you’re all mine 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 you’re all mine 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 - 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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