Filipino Baby

When the warship left

Manila headin' out across the sea

All the sailors hearts were filled with fond regret

Looking backward to the islands where they spent such happy hours

Making love to every pretty girl they've met (When up stepped a little sailor with his bright eyes all aglow Saying take a look at my girl's photograph)

Then the sailors gathered round him just to look upon her face

And he said

I love my

Filipino baby

She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet

Her teeth are bright and pearly and her hair is black as jet

Oh her lips are sweet as honey and her heart is true

I know And she's my darling little

Filipino baby [ steel ]

In a little rustic cottage in the far off

Phillipines dwells a lonely little maiden all alone (She is thinking of her true love though he's far across the sea And her heart beats true for him and him alone)

Then one day he whispered darling

I've come back from

Caroline I've come back to claim the only girl

I love And that night there was a wedding while the ships crew gathered round

And he wed his little

Filipino baby

And she's my little

Filipino baby...