The Yellow Rose Of Texas (song)
"The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a traditional folk song. The original love song has become associated with the legend that Emily D. West, an indentured servant of color, "helped win the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle in the Texas Revolution."
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Famous quotes containing the words yellow, rose and/or texas:
“By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand,
Lonely from the beginning of time until now!
Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn.”
—Li Po (701–762)
“In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)