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 nothin' 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)