Written by: Bill Cox and Clarke Van Ness
Comments: Bill Cox claimed that he wrote "Filipino Baby" about his Uncle Fred. However, the song is clearly based on "Ma Filipino Babe" written by Chas. K. Harris in 1899. Clarke Van Ness has stated that Bill Cox sent him the lyrics and that he rewrote them.
Filipino Baby Lyrics
When the warship's left Manila sailing proudly o'er the seaAll 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
In a little rustic cottage in the port of Filipines
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
Filipino Baby Singers
1. Bill Cox and Cliff Hobbs 1938 First recording on October 20, 1937 First release 2. "T" Texas Tyler and His Oklahoma Melody Boys September 25, 1945 3. Cowboy (pappy) Copas 19454. Ernest Tubb (billboard hit) October 1946.
5. "Texas" Jim Robertson and The Panhandle Punchers October 1946 6. Jimmie Dale and His Prides of the Prairies April 1947 7. Hank Locklin January 1958 8. Earl Taylor & Jim McCall with The Stoney Mountain Boys July 1971 9. Bob Luman November 1971 10. Lester "Roadhog" Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys April 10, 1974 11. Ernest Tubb featuring George Jones July 1979 12. Pearl Harbour 1980 13. Charley Pride March 1983.
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