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 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 