Traditional / public domain

Yellow Rose of Texas

A working songbook entry preserved from repertoire, set-list, or reference evidence.

Status
listed in master repertoire · unknown
Writer / source
Nineteenth-century American song; composer often listed as unknown/J.K.
Rights
Public domain in the United States. Traditional arrangement by The Scrips.
Related Scrips recording
No Scrips recording linked yet.

Source research

Documented lineage

Earliest evidence
1858 sheet music publication
Aliases / index
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Working arrangement
Key G · Capo 2

Lyrics + source text

Working song sheet

Yellow Rose of Texas
Nineteenth-century American song; composer often listed as unknown/J.K.
Rights: public-domain-us

{sounds_in: A}

There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am going to see,No other fellow knows her, no other only me;She cried so when I left her, it like to broke my heart,And if I ever find her we never more shall part.

She's the sweetest little rosebud that Texas ever knew,Her eyes are bright as diamonds, they sparkle like the dew;You may talk about your Clementine and sing of Rosy Lee,But the Yellow Rose of Texas is the only girl for me.

Where the Rio Grande is flowing, and 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 promised to return and not to leave her so.

Repeat chorus

Oh now I'm going to find her, for my heart is full of woe,We'll sing the song together that 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.

Repeat chorus

Archive note

lyric/chord sheet present; listed in master list; appears in setlist

Chords

G · C · D