MY FILIPINO ROSE Recorded by Hank Snow Words and music by Hank Snow C5 G5 C5 The postman dropped a letter in my door F5 C5 The address wasn't plain, but I could see F5 C5 It had traveled far across the great Pa- cif-ic G5 C5 >From My Filipino Rose across the sea. C5 G5 C5 The writing from her tremblin' hand was blurred F5 C5 The paper, it was badly stained with tears F5 C5 It read, "They tell me you have wed a-nother G5 C5 After I have longed and waited all these years." C5 F5 "But I'm still prayin', that the tradewinds G5 C5 Send you sailin' across the blue F5 In my harbor, I've dreamed you'll anchor G5 C5 Where your lonely Filipino waits for you." I promised her that I'd return some day I told her she'd won my heart and hand I told her a lie, 'cause I was lonely Far from home, a stranger in that foreign land. She wrote, "I've watched the driftwood float on by I've watched the sea roll on its weary way I've watched the silver sails out on the ocean Hopin' you might return to me someday." "The chains of love may never set you free But thru the years, as mem'ries fonder grow This broken heart will always wait for you, dear." It was signed, "Your lonely Filipino Rose." CHORUS