When the warship left Manila sailing proudly o'er the sea   Many sailors hearts were filled with sad regret   Looking backward to this Island where they spent such happy hours   Making love to every pretty gal they've met   Well up stopped a little sailor with his bright eyes all aglow   Saying take a look my gal'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   Her lips are sweet as honey and her heart is true I know   And I love my little Filipino baby   [ guitar ]   In a little rustic cottage in the Port of Fillippines   Dwells a pretty little maiden all alone   And she's thinking of her true love though he's far off cross 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...