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
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
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