Filipino Baby

Filipino Baby - Ernest Tubb/The Andrews Sisters

When the warships 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 treasure 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 little Filipino baby oh Jimmy

In a little rustic cottage in the port of Philippines

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 she's my treasure 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 little Filipino baby