I Love You Lyrics - Mitch Miller

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 

(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 leave you, my ship is in the bay 

Kiss me farewell now, there's nothing 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 

(Rose, Rose I love you, I cannot stay)