When the warships left Manila

Sailing proudly o'er the sea

All the sailors hearts were

Filled with fond regret

Looking backward to this island

Where they spent such happy hours

Making love to every pretty girl they've met

Well up stopped a little sailor

With his pride eyes all aglow

Saying take a look at my girl's photograph

Then the sailors gathered 'round him

Just to look upon her face

And he said "I love my Filipino baby"

She's my Filipino baby

She's my treasure and my pet

Her teeth are bright and pearly

And her hair is black as jet

Oh her lips are sweet as honey

And her heart is true I know

She's my darling little Filipino baby oh Jimmy

In a little rustic cottage in the port of Philippines

Dwells a lonely little maiden all alone

She is thinking of her true love though

He's far across the sea

And her heart beats true for him and him alone

Then one day he whispered

"Darling I've come back

From Caroline I've come back to

Claim the only girl I love"

And that night there was a wedding

While the ships crew

Gathered 'round and he wed

His little Filipino baby

She's my Filipino baby

She's my treasure and my pet

Her teeth are bright and pearly

And her hair is black as jet

Oh her lips are sweet as honey

And her heart is true I know

She's my darling little Filipino baby