You can talk all you want about women Said a sailor known as Dan McCann But if you want to know about women You've got to talk to a sailor man I don't know how many I have met And there isn't many that I regret But the lady who gave me a trimmin' Is a gal I can't forget Her name was Hula Lou The kinda gal that couldn't be true She did her dancin' in the evenin' breeze Neath the trees Oh how she used to shake her seaweed dees I never knew A man who wouldn't shoot a Dan McGrew And sail across the briny blue to woo The lady known as Hula Lou Her name was Hula Lou The kinda gal that never could be true She did her dancin' in the evenin' breeze Neath the trees Oh how she used to shake her seaweed dees I never knew A man who wouldn't shoot a Dan McGrew And sail across the briny blue to woo The lady known as Hula Lou I've travelled in and out I've travelled back and forth I've seen 'em in the south I've seen 'em in the north I've seen 'em shakin' east Seen 'em shakin' west But she does the shakin' where the shakin' is best She got a hula smile And lots of hula hair Plenty hula here And a plenty of hula there She got the cutest eyes Dunno what the shape they are 'Cause lookin' from the ground I never got that far Her name was Hula, Hula, Lou, Lou The kinda gal that never could be true I didn't know the language of her lips Oh those lips But how she used to say it with her hips I never knew A man who wouldn't shoot a Dan McGrew And sail across the briny blue to woo The lady known as Hula Lou