Rose, Rose, I Love You

Album: Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits (1951)
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  • 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

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