Historic Sheet Music Collection
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Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_8420-The-yellow-rose-of-Texas
https://archive.org/details/78_the-yellow-rose-of-texas_gene-autry-jimmy-long_gbia0008723a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-yellow-rose-of-texas_jerry-jacka-trio-don-george_gbia0024691b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-yellow-rose-of-texas_jesse-rodgers-with-orchestra_gbia0006610b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-yellow-rose-of-texas_jesse-rodgers-with-orchestra_gbia0008450b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-yellow-rose-of-texas_johnny-schultz-jerry-jacka-trio-don-george_gbia0024691a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-yellow-rose-of-texas_mitch-miller-with-his-orch.-and-chorus-d.-george_gbia0011616b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-yellow-rose-of-texas_the-ranch-house-boys_gbia0007146b
https://archive.org/details/78_yellow-rose-of-texas_jesse-rogers-with-orch.-accomp._gbia0003685b
Publication Date
1858
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
There’s a yellow rose in Texas that I am going to see,
No other darkey knows her, no darkey only me;
She cried so when I left her, it like to broke my heart,
And if I ever find her we never more will part.
[Chorus]
She’s the sweetest rose of color this darkey ever knew,
Her eyes are bright as diamonds, they sparkle like the dew,
You may talk about your Dearest May, and sing of Rosa lee,
But the yellow rose of Texas beats the belles of Tennessee.
[Verse 2]
Where the Rio Grande is flowing, and the starry skies are bright,
She walks along the river in the quiet summer night;
She thinks if I remember, when we parted long ago,
I promis’d to come back again, and not to leave her so.
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Oh! now I’m going to find her, for my hear is full of woe,
And we’ll sing the song together the we sung so long ago;
We’ll play the banjo gaily, and we’ll sing the songs of yore,
And the yellow rose of Texas shall be mine for evermore.
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
K., J. and Gould, Napoleon W., "Yellow Rose of Texas" (1858). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1242.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1242
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Song & chorus composed and arranged expressly for Charles H. Brown by J. K.
Arranged for guitar by Napoleon W. Gould.
New York: Firth & Pond Co. (1858)
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