{"id":1150,"date":"2021-05-10T06:17:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:16:58","slug":"yellow-rose-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/yellow-rose-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Rose of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Cahoots:\u00a0 Marilyn Meilee<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Key of C\u00a0 <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea91d74c5610059320942' value='69ea91d74c5610059320942'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea91d74c5610059320942' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea91d74c5610059320942' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea91d74c5610059320942' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea91d74c5610059320942' ><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Written by an anonymous songwriter known as J.K., the earliest known version of this American folk song was found in Edwin Pearce Christy&#8217;s 1853 songbook Christy&#8217;s Plantation Melodies, No. 2. Christy was a balladeer and was widely known for Christy&#8217;s Minstrels, a blackface minstrel show that started out of New York City in 1847. Sung from the perspective of an African American narrator, the tune follows his quest to find his lost love, a biracial woman he calls &#8220;The Yellow Rose of Texas.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">For these days of political correctness, common renditions have replaced lines such as &#8220;She&#8217;s the sweetest rose of color&#8221; with &#8220;She&#8217;s the sweetest little flower &#8211; or rosebud.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">&lt;hr&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><code class=\"_3enQP\"><\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"_3F2CP _3hukP\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">The Yellow Rose of Texas - 1853\r\n<\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">American \/ Texas Folk Music\r\n<\/span> \r\n<span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">There's a [F] yellow rose of Texas that I am going for to see.  N<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">o [C] body else could miss her, [C7] not half as much as me.   <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">She [F] cried so when I left her, it like to broke my heart,  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">and [C7] if I ever [F] find her, we [C] never [C7] more will [F] part.  \r\n  <\/span><\/span>\r\n<span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">She's the [F] sweetest little rosebud that Texas ever knew.   <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">Her [C] eyes are bright as diamonds, they [C7] sparkle like the dew.  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">You may [F] talk about your Clementine and sing of Rosalie,  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">but the [C7] yellow [F] rose of [C] Texas is the [C7] only girl [F] for me.\r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\n<span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">Where the [F] Rio Grande is flowing and starry skies are bright;  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">she [C] walks along the river in the [C7] quiet summer night. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">I [F] know that she remembers when we parted long ago;  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">I [C7] promised [F] to come [C] back to [C7] her and [F] never leave her so.    \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n<span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">I [F] know I'm going to find her, my heart is full of woe; <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">we'll [C] do the things together we [C7] did so long ago.\r\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">We'll [F] play the banjo gaily and sing just like before,  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">and the [C] yellow [F] rose of [C] Texas will be [C7] mine forever [F] more.    \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n<span class=\"_2jIGi\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">She's the [F] sweetest little rosebud that Texas ever knew. Her [C] eyes are bright as diamonds, they [C7] sparkle like the dew. You may [F] talk about your Clementine and sing of Rosalie, but the [C7] yellow [F] rose of [C] Texas is the [C7] only girl [F] for me.\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cahoots:\u00a0 Marilyn Meilee Key of C\u00a0 The Yellow Rose of Texas &#8211; 1853 American \/ Texas Folk Music There&#8217;s a [F] yellow rose of Texas that I am going for to see. No [C] body else could miss her, [C7] not half as much as me. She [F] cried so &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/yellow-rose-of-texas\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yellow Rose of Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,133,126,265,13,116,117,123,115,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30284,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/30284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}