| I'm far away from home out on the dashing foam, | |
| Just how far I have travelled I'll never know, | |
| Sometimes I feel so blue and I long for home and you, | |
| But I must stay and fight the foe. | |
| CHORUS | |
| So I'm sending you red roses to tell you my love is true, | |
| And I send them so you will know dear that I'm always thinking of you. | |
| Enclosed you will find my heart dear so treat it with tender care | |
| And ev'ry time you look inside dear you'll find my love is there. | |
| May each petal be a memory of the happiness we knew, | |
| Each thorn may tell a story of the heartache that I've been thro', | |
| So I'm sending you red roses although we're oceans apart, | |
| And remember when they fade dear that you'll always have my heart. |