Filipino Baby Lyrics - The Complete Hits, 1941-1962 - Ernest Tubb

When the warship's left Manila sailing proudly o'er the sea 

All the sailors hearts were filled with fond regret 

Looking backward to this Island where they spent such happy hours 

Making love to every pretty girl they've met 

(Well up stopped a little sailor with his pride 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 trasure 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 

She's my darling my little Filipino baby 

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In a little rustic cottage in the port of Filipines 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 

She's my Filipino baby...