Lyrics:

*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 can not stay

Make way, oh make way
For my eastern Rose
Men crowd in dozens, ev'rywhere she goes
In her rick'shaw on the street
Or in the cabaret
Please make way for Rose
You can hear them say

**All my life, I shall remember
Oriental music and you in muy arms
Perfumed flowers in your traces
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

(Repeat **)

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

(Repeat *)