diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/suggest/SuggestBuilder.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/suggest/SuggestBuilder.java
index 2852204bb6f..6cf5175709b 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/suggest/SuggestBuilder.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/suggest/SuggestBuilder.java
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ public class SuggestBuilder extends ToXContentToBytes implements Writeable<Sugge
      * Gets the global suggest text
      */
     public String getText() {
-        return null;
+        return this.globalText;
     }
 
     /**