THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS
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- čas přidán 17. 11. 2023
- Ranked as one of the top 100 western songs ever written, this successful minstrel song, dating to the early 1850's, first appeared in 1853 Philadelphia, in a collection of minstrel songs titled, "Christy's Plantation Melodies No. 2", but without musical notation or naming the writer. Later, in 1858, it was published by Firth, Pond & Co., of New York city, this time with revised lyrics, a piano score, and crediting a certain "J.K." as the writer. As a minstrel love song, the singer, an African-American young man, tells of his desire to return to find his lady love in Texas, his 'yellow rose'.
During the War Between the States, the song gained widespread popularity with Southern troops. It was the favorite marching song of General John Bell Hood’s Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia. In 1864, General Hood was promoted to command the Army of Tennessee. After the disastrous battles of Franklin and Nashville, remnants of Hood’s Army limped back to Georgia and to their former commander General “Uncle Joe” Johnston. During this march the soldiers added a verse to the song summing up their recent campaign ordeals. - Hudba
God bless the Republic of Texas!
After Texas voted to secede Govetnof Houston who had preached against Secession said he could be President of Texas again. He was told to swear allegiance to the CSA and kicked out of office
Long before he had told Travis to abandon the Alamo and Fannun to leave Goliad. Taking artillery and spiki g what they could nor move
He predicted Secession would lead to disaster
His gravestone should read I Told You So!
And long may she live
@@kmaher1424 Thanks for that tad bit of history ... Texans all know what happened in Texas... We are taught Texas history before American History being that we became a Republic before a state. We all know that. Hope it made you feel better about your lack luster, low confidence attitude. Go whine somewheres else.
@JohnnyRebWasATexan
Whining? I am proud of Sam Houston. Glad I live in the diverse Democratic city that bears his name
The San Jacinto Battleground is a patch of coastal prairie surrounded by tank farms and containers going by on the Ship Channel. Not as picturesque as the sites of defeat but Sam beat Santa Anna there
Take your Lost Cause Battle Flag back to the Trump camp
@@kmaher1424 Keep voting democrat/republican all you want, it's not going to stop your neighborhood along with the rest of Houston from turning into a ghetto. Seriously, STOP voting for these useless parties.
God bless Texas and the Republic of Texas as well. Americans stand with you.
MUCH RESPECT AND SUPPORT TO TEXAS FROM NORTH CAROLINA!!!!🙏🇺🇲❤️🎉👍
God bless the South and the 2nd South Carolina String Band!
I am just obsessed with civil war music.
Me too😂
C-caw
Beautiful recreation and perfectly staged. Excellent musicianship.
Great band. Fine old minstrel tune
God Bless Texas 👍🙏
What a wonderful way to start the Christmas season!
Love from Eastern WA. My dad was born in Houston. 1960. Grandma was from Breaux Bridge ,Louisiana . A Serbian family that immigrated to New Orleans in the 1800s. Moms side is Dutch from New Amsterdam in the late 1600s. A family of Yanks and rebels haha. Proud of both sides of my heritage. One supported the colonies the other the Rebels. separated by many years of course.
BRAVO, BRAVO,BRAVO.
👆👍👊🤜🤛📺
From Perú I love your music,fantastic😂
Stay strong Confederates from Western Kentucky 🤘
GOD BLESS THE SOUTH
Dixie in our hearts never die !
Listning to these songs is like touching his life live
As a Tejano this tune is soothing.
GOOOOO TEXAS GOOOOO !!!
Gents. Haven’t heard this rendition before. FABULOUS! Regards from the UK. Bob
Thank you for the great comment friend! I really enjoy seeing people from other countries comment their kind and respectful opinions. From Amarillo Texas, Confederate States of America!
Thank you for your kind words a sir! My only regret is that I was not able to see them live!@@JohnnyRebWasATexan
Una de mis canciones favoritas.
¡Viva el Sur!
Saludos desde España
☺️😊😃
Watchin' from Romania!Awesome song and beautifully played
Not a Texan, but an old Virginian. Still, gotta love this song. Only folks I imagine would take offense would be the good folks of Tennessee, haha! God bless em all!
Sic semper tyrannis.
Love your music and melodies you put in your songs!!!
Love from Nepal 🇳🇵🇳🇵
Nepal ! Amazing !!
Been waiting for this one!
Glad to hear it !
There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am gonna see
Nobody else could miss her not half as much as me
She cried so when I left her it was like it broke her heart
And if I ever find her we never more will part
She's the sweetest little rose bud that Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds they sparkle like the dew
You may talk about your Clementine and sing of Rosa Lee
But the yellow rose of Texas is the only girl for me
Where the Rio Grand is flowing and the starry skies are bright
She walks along the river in the quiet summer night
I know that she remembers when we parted long ago
I promise to return and not to leave her so
She's the sweetest little rose bud that Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds they sparkle like the dew
You may talk about your Clementine and sing of Rosa Lee
But the yellow rose of Texas is the only girl for me
Now I'm gonna find her for my heart is full of woe
We'll do the things together we did so long ago
We'll play the banjo gaily she'll loves me like before
And the yellow rose of Texas shall be mine forever more
She's the sweetest little rose bud that Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds they sparkle like the dew
You may talk about your Clementine and sing of Rosa Lee
But the yellow rose of Texas is the only girl for me
I love this string band, I wish I could meet y’all in person! This is a beautiful song and a beautiful performance.
The only travesty about this performance is that it's missing the verse that ends with:
"You may talk about your Beauregard and speak of Bobby Lee, but the gallant Hood of Texas, he plays hell in Tennessee!"
"Travesty" ?!?! Seeing that our 'conceit' in creating the 'Far, Far from Home' video was to present what could have been a typical Confederate camp scene a few weeks after the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Hood was wounded in the arm there and later lost a leg at the battle of Chickamauga that fall. He was out of action until the spring of 1864, when he took command of the Army of Tennessee from Joe Johnston. The verse you're citing was added on to the original version after Hood's disastrous offensive campaign vs Sherman at Atlanta. Our performance is set well before any of Hood's deeds in Tennessee and so the soldier-musicians we portray wouldn't have known about them because they had not happened yet. See ?
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand
Huh, didn't think about that
BEAUTIFUL COVER.
Beautiful.
Great song, southern hospitalty, No one better, i remember the song the eyes of texas is opun you All the living long Day, 😊😊😊
Thank you so much for being kind to us❤
Dixie never dies! The south will rise again!!!
Thnks, Lads. Yall still have a special place in our hearts and prayers. God Bless and Texas is here too!
LEWIE !!! Thanks !
Yall too!@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand
Love from Croatia 🇭🇷🇭🇷♥️
One of the great ones. Wished I had a dollar for every time we played it. I use to live in Huntsville, TX and our house was across from the Sam Houston museum and was part of Sam's homestead. I understand this song was a favorite marching song during the War with Mexico, but that was from 1846-1848.
"Texans always move 'em"
- Robert E Lee
What did the general mean by that
@@TexasNationalist1836
It was at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864.
The Texas Brigade was needed to counter-attack and plug a hole in the line.
Amazing as always 💯
Love from Texas. Glad yall made a cover of this beautiful song. God bless.
Beautiful done, as always. Thank you.
Excelente, bravo 👏 saludos desde el sur de España
Thank you for the great comments. It is a wonderful song!
From Amarillo, Texas, Confederate States of America...
Beautiful sing as always. Thanks for persevering our heritage.
Excellent!👍, comme je voudrais être autour de ce feu à écouter votre wonderful music!❤ a friend from 🇫🇷
Thank you for the kind and respectful comments. We all would love to have you at the campfire! There is a steak and a Lone Star beer waiting on ya down here in TEXAS!
From Amarillo, Texas.
Beautiful song. God bless all of you
Shared 🎉
Una canción bonita
Yellow Rose of Texas > bells of Tennessee
❤️👍👍
We love the Confederate States of America!😊❤❤❤😊
William Barret Travis born in S.C. and died at the Alamo.
Just a couple days away from the Anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo..... Col. William Barret Travis is a hero of the Alamo and Texas liberty.... Glad and proud our Texas Hero came from the great state of South Carolina
What kind of guitar is that being played?
They are called banjos, a staple of southern music
@@MatTheRadarTech not the banjo lol. I was asking about the guitar thats being played by the singer in the middle. I was wondering what kind of model it was cause I like how compact it is compared to most guitars which are huge.
@@GIR__Sorry about the delay to reply. That is an 1850's Martin 'parlor' guitar, found in an antique store, restored by the band and strung with gut strings (as were most stringed instruments in the early 1800's). It's sound output is out of all proportion to its size, we discovered. Of course, we didn't know it was such a valuable instrument/antique for several years. It wasn't until we were playing at the dedication of a monument to the 11th Mississippi reg't, on a cold, misty March morning in 2000, that we were approached by a woman who wanted a closer look at the guitar. Turns out she worked for the C.F. Martin company. She looked the instrument over thoroughly and told us it was likely made by one of the craftsmen employed by the company in the mid-1850's. Each such employee (there were only a handful) was allowed to make three instruments for their own use each year, she said, and this was probably one of those. She also said it should be insured for LOTS of money, and WHY, by the way, was it out in such crummy weather. Needless to say, that was the last time that guitar 'took the field' with the band... (PS... "Huge" guitars are a feature of the 20th century)
Why not the Hood version?
"Hood version ?"
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBandhey guys y'all are my favorite band I was going to ask if y'all have a cover of" to arms in Dixie"
Well, yes,@@DevanGilmer We do. It can be found on our "Dulcem Melodies" album, titled "War Song of Dixie", or, czcams.com/video/-98AquKZT6s/video.html here on CZcams. Enjoy !
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand thank you so much!
I will add briefly:
1) General Robert E. Lee (a Southerner) had NO slaves.
2) There WERE slaves in the family of (northern) General Ulysses Grant. However, his slaves were not freed until 1865.
There were also slaves from (Northerners): Sherman, Sheridan and other Northerners!
3) Also, the generals (of the (SOUTH) DID NOT HAVE slaves: Joseph Johnston, Ambrose Hill, Fitzhugh Lee, J.E.B. Stewart, Ronayne Clayburn, Colonel Joseph Kelly and many others. They WERE NOT slaveholders.
4) It is especially worth noting that most Indians sided with the Confederacy.
In addition, the "Black Howitzers" unit, consisting of African Americans, became particularly famous.
PS: It should be especially noted that in the NORTH during the war, NOT a single law was passed that would grant freedom to a person in slavery!Also, in the constitution of the Confederation of the FIRST - slavery was ABOLIDHED. And in the (northern), it persisted until the end of tо war.
Preach bro! Everyone decides to just blame the south but ignore the facts
Yes we had Choctaw and Cherokee troops. In fact the last General to surrender was Gen Stand Watie of the Cherokee nation. Who led a number of die hard Confederacy Cherokee...
@@JohnnyRebWasATexan 1) Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, major part Seminole and other tribes.
2) In what year I do not remember (it seems to be in 1864) - the Cherokees managed to capture a Yankee steamer plying between two forts. The Yankees, almost without resistance, fled from the steamer.
This has nothing to do with the civil war
who said it did
The confederate states never existed. If it did, FORGET IT
The South existed before the Confederacy and it exists after. We are greater than it. But we will never forget it, for the prospect of a free South was born there, and it has long outlasted the Confederacy.
But for now, enjoy a nice, American folk song, and stop being such a stiff.
@@RomanusVIII’m talking about the US civil war
@@castielsosa8512 you a Civil War denier?
@@thearnorianruby4681unless denier is a bad thing. Yes
@@castielsosa8512 it is a bad thing.
Did y’all split up or retire? Been missing y’all at events!
Retired but they're still uploading some of their songs.
Sorry to disappoint, but the band DIS-banded at the end of 2019, due to aging-out mostly. Most of us started together in 1989, when we were already in our mid-40's. The 'annoyances' of aging, PC/Cancel Culture and in late 2019, the restrictions of Covid all combined in a sort of perfect storm that made it clear the time had come for us to 'drop the mic’ and leave the stage... ‘All good things’… etc., etc’. And so they have. It was a GREAT ride while it lasted, thanks to good folks like yourself. Thanks for asking though. I wish we could have had better news for you. We miss seeing y'all too !
Well dang, i just discovered yall a few yrs ago & didnt know had disbanded..i bought the Southern Soldier album off amazon & it is great!!
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand My blessings to you good folk!
Tejas por tejanos
Best regards from Russian confederate hearts
Брат! Я с тобой!;❤❤❤
Y'all knock it out of the park once again! I'm curious if there are any "Battle hymn of the Republic" covers that you guys have?
Well, thanks a bunch, Gene. Mighty kind of you to say. As for the "Battle Hymn...", like my brother used to say, "We ain't a union band."
Well thats okay!
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand
Aye, sing 'em Jine the Calvry instead ;-)