My Filipino Rose

MY FILIPINO ROSE Recorded by Hank Snow Words and music by Hank Snow door The see It had } cif-ic >From My Filipino sea. blurred The tears It } nother After I have longed and years." tradewinds Send you blue In my harbor, I've dreamed you'll anchor Where your I promised her that I'd return some day I told her she'd won my heart and hand I told her a lie, 'cause I was lonely Far from home, a stranger in that foreign land. She wrote, "I've watched the driftwood float on by I've watched the sea roll on its weary way I've watched the silver sails out on the ocean Hopin' you might return to me someday." "The chains of love may never set you free But thru the years, as mem'ries fonder grow This broken heart will always wait for you, dear." It was signed, "Your lonely Filipino Rose." CHORUS