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When the warship left |
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Manila headin' out across the sea |
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All the sailors hearts were filled with fond regret |
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Looking backward to the islands where they spent such happy hours |
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Making love to every pretty girl they've met (When up stepped a little sailor with his bright eyes all aglow Saying take a look at my girl's photograph) |
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Then the sailors gathered round him just to look upon her face |
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And he said |
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I love my |
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Filipino baby |
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She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet |
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Her teeth are bright and pearly and her hair is black as jet |
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Oh her lips are sweet as honey and her heart is true |
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I know And she's my darling little |
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Filipino baby [ steel ] |
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In a little rustic cottage in the far off |
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Phillipines 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) |
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Then one day he whispered darling |
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I've come back from |
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Caroline I've come back to claim the only girl |
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I love And that night there was a wedding while the ships crew gathered round |
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And he wed his little |
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Filipino baby |
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And she's my little |
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Filipino baby... |
