It's interesting to compare this with the version in the DT: FILIPINO BABY.

Sheet music for the following version can be seen or downloaded at Baylor University, the Levy Collection (PDF), Mississippi State University, or Washington University (PDF).


MA FILIPINO BABE
Words and music by Charles K. Harris, ©1898.

1. On a war boat from Manila steaming proudly o'er the foam,
There were many sailors' hearts filled with regret,
Gazing backwards at the islands where they'd spent such happy days
Making love to ev'ry pretty girl they met.
When up spoke a colored sailor lad with bright eyes all aglow,
"Just take a look at ma gal's photograph."
How the white crew laughed and chaffed him when her shiny face they saw!
But he said, "I love ma Filipino baby.

CHORUS: "She's ma Filipino baby; she's ma treasure and ma pet.
There's no yaller gal that's dearer, though her face is black as jet;
For her lips are sweet as honey and her heart is pure, I know.
She's ma pretty black-faced Filipino baby."

2. In a little rustic cottage in the far-off Philippines
Sits a little black-faced maiden all alone,
Waiting for her sailor lover, though he's black as black can be,
Yet she loves him and her heart for him does yearn.
Suddenly she hears his dear voice as he cries out: "Caroline,
I've come back to the only gal I love."
And that night there was a wedding; all the ship's crew gathered there
When he wedded his black Filipino baby.