Filipino Baby - Folk Song

Filipino Baby
(Billy Cox and Clarke Van Ness)

When the warships left Manila
Sailing proudly o'er the sea,
All the sailor's hearts were filled with fond regret
Looking backward to this island
Where they spent such happy hours
Making love to every pretty girl they met.

When up stepped a little sailor with his bright eyes all aglow
Sayin, "Take a look at my gal's photograph"
Then the sailors gathered round him just look upon her face
And he said, "I love my Filipino Baby."

cho: 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 darlin' little Filipino Baby.

In a little rustic cottage in the far off Philippines
Dwells a pretty 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, "Darlin' I've come back from Caroline
I've come back to claim the only girl I love
Then that night there was a wedding while the ship's crew gathered 'round
And he wed his little Filipino Baby.

CHORUS

Source. Ernest Tubb's Golden Favorites
Adapted from a song written by Charles K. Harris
during the Spanish-American War.