rose rose i love you with an aching heart what is your future now we have to partstanding on the jetty as the steamer moves away flower of malaya i cannot staymake way oh make way for my eastern rose men crowd in dozens everywhere she goesin her rickshaw on the street or in a cabaret please make way for rose you can hear them sayall my life i shall remember oriental music and you in my ownperfectflowers in your dresses lotus and it breezes and swayingrose rose i love you with your almond eyes fragrant and slender beneath tropical skiesi must cross the seas again and never see you more way back to my home on a distant shoreall my lifeishallI shall remember oriental music and you in my heartperfume flowers in your tressesfloral scented breezes and swaying boatsrose rose i leave you my ship is in the baykiss me farewell now there's nothing to sayeast is east and west is west our worlds are far aparteast is east and west is west our worlds are far aparti must leave you now but i leave my heartrose rose i love you with an aching heartwhat is your future now we have to partstanding on the jetty as the steamer moves awayflower of malaya i cannot stayrose rose i love you i cannot stayrose rose i love you i cannot stay