Good one, Penny! maybe it oculd be hammered, thus thinned out gold? Of course, then it wouldn't work very well against steel blade would it?

Well, I feel like an idiot. The song I was looking for IS called "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" and is in the DT. Says it is an 1800's descendant of Round My Hat, which I am not familiar with and didn't look up. It was also used in an old Johnwayne movie.

My mom had a beautiful hybrid rosebush called the Peace rose, which would fill up wiht gorgeous yellow blossoms.