MY FILIPINO ROSE
(Hank Snow)

Recorded by:
Hank Snow; Ernest Tubb.



The postman dropped a letter at my door
The address wasn’t plain but I could see
It had traveled far across the great Pacific
From My Filipino Rose across the sea

CHORUS
But I’m still praying that the trade wind sends you sailing across the blue
In my harbor of dreams you’ll anchor, where your lonely Filipino waits for you

The writing from her trembling hands was blurred
The paper it was sadly stained with tears
It read, they tell me you have wed another
After I have longed and waited all these years

CHORUS
But I’m still praying that the trade wind sends you sailing across the blue
In my harbor of dreams you’ll anchor, where your lonely Filipino waits for you

I promised her that I’d return someday
I told her she had won my heart and hand
I told her a line ‘cause I was lonely
Far from home a stranger in a foreign land

CHORUS
But I’m still praying that the trade wind sends you sailing across the blue
In my harbor of dreams you’ll anchor, where your lonely Filipino waits for you

She wrote, I’ve watched the driftwood float on by
I’ve watched the sea roll on its weary way
I have watched the silver sails out on the ocean
Hoping you might return to me someday

CHORUS
But I’m still praying that the trade wind sends you sailing across the blues
In my harbor of dreams you’ll anchor, where your lonely Filipino waits for you

The chains of my love may never set you free
But thru’ the years as memories fonder grow
This broken heart will always wait for you, dear
It was signed your lonely Filipino Rose

CHORUS
But I’m still praying that the trade wind sends you sailing across the blue
In my harbor of dreams you’ll anchor, where you Filipino waits for you



(Contributed by lylemalone - January 2005)