| Rose, Rose I love you with an aching heart
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| What is your future, now we have to part?
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| Standing on the jetty as the steamer moves away
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| Flower of Malaya, I cannot stay
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| Make way, oh, make way for my Eastern Rose
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| Men crowd in dozens everywhere she goes
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| In her rickshaw on the street or in a cabaret
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| «Please make way for Rose,» you can hear them say
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| All my life I shall remember
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| Oriental music and you in my arms
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| Perfumed flowers in your tresses
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| Lotus-scented breezes and swaying palms
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| Rose, Rose, I love you with your almond eyes
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| Fragrant and slender 'neath tropical skies
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| I must cross the seas again and never see you more
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| Way back to my home on a distant shore
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| (All my life I shall remember)
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| (Oriental music and you in my arms)
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| (Perfumed flowers in your tresses)
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| (Lotus-scented breezes and swaying palms)
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| Rose, Rose, I leave you, my ship is in the bay
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| Kiss me farewell now, there’s nothin' to say
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| East is East and West is West, our worlds are far apart
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| I must leave you now but I leave my heart
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| Rose, Rose, I love you with an aching heart
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| What is your future, now we have to part?
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| Standing on the jetty as the steamer moves away
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| Flower of Malaya, I cannot stay
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| (Rose, Rose, I love you, I cannot stay) |