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 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...