traditional Philippine folk song
Female:
Don't you go, oh don't you go
To far Zamboanga
Where you may forget your darling far away.
Don't you go, oh don't you go
For if you leave me
How can I without you stay?
Male:
Oh weep not, my dear paloma.
Oh weep not, for I'll return.
Oh weep not, my little darling,
I shall remember and I shall yearn.
Zamboanga is a city in the southern
Philippines, on the island of
Mindanao. Its original name,
Samboangan, means "docking point", from
sabuan, the wooden pole sometimes used to propel water crafts.