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))