[San Toy:]
From a country far in the golden west
A certain somebody came;
I think perhaps that it may be best
If I don't mention his name.
When first he travell'd across the seas,
This somebody couldn't speak Chinese;
Yet I contrived in my girlish way,
To understand what he had to say,
To understand what he had to say.
Somebody thought me nice, you see,
Somebody used to flatter me.
I understood with blushes red
All that somebody softly said,
that somebody softly said.
Now in time this somebody got to know
Our language perfectly well;
And we would chatter together, though
Perhaps I oughtn't to tell.
And fond and fonder of him I grew
For somebody was good-looking too;
Until when we were alone one day,
He spoke to me in a bolder way,
He spoke to me in a bolder way.
Somebody said so soft and low,
Somebody said: "I love you so.
You are the girl I want to wed!"
That's what somebody softly said,
what somebody softly said.
[Chorus:]
Soft and low,
I love you so.
[All:]
"You are the girl I want to wed!"
That's what somebody softly said,
what somebody softly, softly said.