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)