Frankie Laine - Rose, Rose I Love You lyrics

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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 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.)