There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am gonna see
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No other soldier knows her, no soldier only me
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She cried so when I left her, it like to broke my heart
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And if I ever find her we never more will part
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She's the sweetest rose of color this soldier ever knew
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Her eyes are bright as diamonds, they sparkle like the dew
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You may talk about dearest May and sing of Rosa Lee
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But the Yellow Rose of Texas beats the belles of Tennessee
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Where the Rio Grande is flowin', and starry skies are bright
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She walks along the river in the quiet summer night
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She thinks if I remember when we parted long ago
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I promised to come back again and not to leave her so
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She's the sweetest rose of color this soldier ever knew
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Her eyes are bright as diamonds, they sparkle like the dew
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You may talk about dearest May and sing of Rosa Lee
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But the Yellow Rose of Texas beats the belles of Tennessee
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Oh my feet are torn and bloody, and my heart if full of woe,
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I'm going back to Georgia, to find my Uncle Joe,
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You may talk about your Beauregard, and sing of Bobbie Lee,
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But the gallant Hood of Texas, he played hell in Tennessee.
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She's the sweetest rose of color this soldier ever knew
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Her eyes are bright as diamonds, they sparkle like the dew
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You may talk about dearest May and sing of Rosa Lee
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But the Yellow Rose of Texas beats the belles of Tennessee
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Yellow Rose Of Texas
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Johnny Horton |