My Filipino Rose-Ernest Tubb

[ti:My Filipino Rose] [ar:Ernest Tubb] [al:Ernest Tubb (The Texas Troubadour) Selected Favorites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Filipino Rose (我的菲律宾玫瑰) - Ernest Tubb [00:12.34]The postman dropped the letter in my door [00:17.16] [00:18.08]The address wasn't plain but I could see [00:23.33]It had travelled far across the Great Pacific [00:28.34] [00:29.05]From my Filipino Rose across the sea [00:34.23] [00:35.25]The writing of her trembling hand was blurred [00:40.28] [00:40.99]The paper was sadly stained with tears [00:45.97] [00:46.73]It read to tell me you have want another [00:51.55] [00:52.11]After I have longed and waited all these years [00:57.54]But I'm still praying that the trade wind [01:03.76]Sends you sailing across the blue [01:09.07] [01:09.59]In my harbor I dream you'll anchor [01:15.38]Where your lonely Filipino waits for you [01:20.73] [01:33.12]I have promised her that I'd return someday [01:37.70] [01:38.82]I told her she have won my heart and hand [01:43.64] [01:44.66]I told her a lie cause I was lonely [01:50.10]Far from home a stranger in that foreign land [01:55.42] [01:56.33]She wrote I watched the driftwood float on by [02:01.37] [02:02.15]I watched the sea alone in it's weary way [02:07.61]I have watched the silver sails out on the ocean [02:12.83] [02:13.39]Hoping that you'd might return to me someday [02:18.72] [02:19.50]The chains of love may never set you free [02:24.69] [02:25.23]But through the years these mem'ries fondly grow [02:30.33] [02:31.10]This broken heart will always wait for you dear [02:35.93] [02:36.48]It was signed your lonely Filipino Rose [02:41.83]But I'm still praying that the trade wind [02:48.15]Sends you sailing across the blue [02:53.99]In my harbor I dream you'll anchor [02:59.86]Where your lonely Filipino waits for you