Name: The Yellow Rose Of Texas (arr. John Fries) by Mitch Miller Lead Sheet / Fake Book Digital Sheet Music
Brand: John Fries
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The Yellow Rose Of Texas (arr. John Fries)
by Mitch Miller Lead Sheet / Fake Book - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title The Yellow Rose Of Texas (arr. John Fries)

Artist Mitch Miller

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Traditional Don George

Arranger John Fries

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 2

Arrangement Lead Sheet / Fake Book

Publisher John Fries

Level 3

Product ID 1688048

Genre Country Standards 20th Century 19th Century

Instruments C Instruments

Product Description

"The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a traditional American song dating back to at least the 1850s. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Many versions of the song have been recorded, the most popular of which was by Mitch Miller, whose version reached No. 1 in the United States in 1955. Its popularity made it an unofficial state song of Texas (the actual state song is "Texas, Our Texas"). The earliest known version of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" is found in Christy's Plantation Melodies. No. 2, a songbook published under the authority of Edwin Pearce Christy in Philadelphia in 1853. Christy was the founder of the blackface minstrel show known as the Christy's Minstrels. Like most minstrel songs, the lyrics are written in a cross between a parody of a generic creole dialect historically attributed to African-Americans and standard American English. The song is written in the first person from the perspective of an African-American singer who refers to himself as a "darkey," longing to return to "a yellow girl" (that is, a light-skinned, or bi-racial woman born of African/African-American and European-American progenitors).

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