{"id":7934,"date":"2015-06-01T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:53:21","slug":"yellow-rose-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7934","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Rose of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Yellow_Rose.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Yellow_Rose.mp3\"> The Yellow Rose of Texas &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n &#8220;The Yellow Rose of Texas&#8221; was part of the repertoire of the Christie Minstrels in the 1850s. The song was also used as a marching tune in the American War between the States in the 1860s. This is a completely new version, based on the original lyrics that I wrote especially for the Folk Den.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[A] There&#8217;s a lovely girl in Texas<br \/>\nThat I am going to see;<br \/>\n[D] No other man has [A] kissed her<br \/>\n[F#m] No other man but\u00c2&nbsp;[E] me;<br \/>\n[A] She cried so when I left her<br \/>\nThat it really broke my heart,<br \/>\n[D] And I know that when I find her,<br \/>\nWe [E] never more shall [A] part.<\/p>\n<p>CH:<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the sweetest little rosebud<br \/>\nAnybody ever knew;<br \/>\nHer eyes are bright as diamonds,<br \/>\nThey sparkle like the dew.<br \/>\nYou may talk about your April Rose,<br \/>\nAnd sing of Rosa Lee,<br \/>\nBut the yellow Rose of Texas<br \/>\nIs the only Rose for me.<\/p>\n<p>Where the Rio Grande is flowing,<br \/>\nAnd the starry skies are bright,<br \/>\nShe walks along the river<br \/>\nIn the quiet summer night;<br \/>\nAnd she thinks if I remember<br \/>\nWhen we parted long ago,<br \/>\nI promised to come back again,<br \/>\nAnd never leave her so.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I&#8217;m going down to find her,<br \/>\nFor my heart is full of woe,<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll sing the songs together<br \/>\nThat we sang so long ago.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll play the banjo every night,<br \/>\nAnd sing our sorrows o&#8217;er,<br \/>\nAnd the yellow Rose of Texas<br \/>\nshall be mine forever more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Yellow Rose of Texas &#8211; Click To Play &#8220;The Yellow Rose of Texas&#8221; was part of the repertoire of the Christie Minstrels in the 1850s. The song was also used as a marching tune in the American War between the States in the 1860s. This is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7934\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yellow Rose of Texas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8880,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions\/8880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}