How Could Red Riding Hood - Tommy Christian & His Orchestra (1926)

"How Could Red Riding Hood?" is performed by Tommy Christian & His Orchestra on Harmony 264

The lyrics are bold for this era. How can a young woman stay "good" yet still escape poverty? The suggestion is that sexual favors can relieve poverty if a maiden needs to escape poverty.

1926

The song was written by Alfred Pace Randolph.

How could Red
Ridin' Hood
have been so very
good and still keep
the wolf from the
door?

Father and mother,
she had none, so
where in the world
did the money
come from?

Please let me
ask it--who filled
her basket?

The story books
never tell!

They said that
she found a great
big wolf in
granny's bed--
a big sun
bonnet pulled
over his head.

But you know and
I know what she
must've
found instead.

How could Red
Ridin' Hood
have been so very
good and still keep
the wolf from the door?

"How Could Red Riding Hood?" Tommy Christian & His Orchestra (1926) Alfred Pace Randolph song