My Filipino Rose
Composer(s): Hank Snow
Performer(s): Hank Snow; Ernest Tubb
The postman dropped a letter at my door
The address wasnt plain but I could see
It had traveled far across the great Pacific
From My Filipino Rose across the sea
But Im still praying that the trade wind sends you sailing across the blue
In my harbor of dreams youll anchor, where your lonely Filipino waits for you
The writing from her trembling hands was blurred
The paper it was sadly stained with tears
It read, they tell me you have wed another
After I have longed and waited all these years
But Im still praying that the trade wind sends you sailing across the blue
In my harbor of dreams youll anchor, where your lonely Filipino waits for you
I promised her that Id return someday
I told her she had won my heart and hand
I told her a line cause I was lonely
Far from home a stranger in a foreign land
But Im still praying that the trade wind sends you sailing across the blue
In my harbor of dreams youll anchor, where your lonely Filipino waits for you
She wrote, Ive watched the driftwood float on by
Ive watched the sea roll on its weary way
I have watched the silver sails out on the ocean
Hoping you might return to me someday
But Im still praying that the trade wind sends you sailing across the blues
In my harbor of dreams youll anchor, where your lonely Filipino waits for you
The chains of my love may never set you free
But thru the years as memories fonder grow
This broken heart will always wait for you, dear
It was signed your lonely Filipino Rose
But Im still praying that the trade wind sends you sailing across the blue
In my harbor of dreams youll anchor, where you Filipino waits for you
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