Rose, Rose, I Love You

Rose, Rose I love you with an aching heart

What is your future?, now we have to part

Standing on the jetty as the steamer moves away

Flower of Malaya, I cannot stay

Make way, oh, make way for my Eastern Rose

Men crowd in dozens everywhere she goes

In her rickshaw on the street or in a cabaret

"Please make way for Rose" you can hear them say

All my life I shall remember

Oriental music and you in my arms

Perfumed flowers in your tresses

Lotus-scented breezes and swaying palms

Rose, Rose I love you with your almond eyes

Fragrant and slender 'neath tropical skies

I must cross the seas again and never see you more

Way back to my home on a distant shore

(All my life I shall remember)

(Oriental music and you in my arms)

(Perfumed flowers in your tresses)

(Lotus-scented breezes and swaying palms)

Rose, Rose I leave you, my ship is in the bay

Kiss me farewell now, there's nothing to say

East is East and West is West, our worlds are far apart

I must leave you now but I leave my heart

Rose, Rose I love you with an aching heart

What is your future?, now we have to part

Standing on the jetty as the steamer moves away

Flower of Malaya, I cannot stay

(Rose, Rose I love you, I cannot stay)