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Thread #53607 Message #1926501
Posted By: Lighter
04-Jan-07 - 11:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Yellow Rose of Texas
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Yellow Rose of Texas
Silber's usually reliable "Songs of the Civil War" (1961) gives the Hood stanza this way:
And now I'm going Southward,
For my heart is full of woe,
I'm going back to Georgia
To find my Uncle Joe.
You may talk about your dearest May
And sing of Rosalie,
But the gallant Hood of Texas
Played hell in Tennessee.
Silber's source appears to be Richard B. Harwell's "Songs of the Confederacy" (N.Y.: Broadcast Music, Inc., 1951), but I haven't been able to check this. I may be able to dig an older and better source from my chaotic files.
I knew a Civil War re-enactor who told me in 1974 he'd heard the (post-war) song "I'm a Good Ol' Rebel" sung to this tune. (The more trad melody is "Joe Bowers.")