(TEXAS) The Yellow Rose of Texas

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(TEXAS.) The Yellow Rose of Texas. 5 pages. Folio, 13 1/4 x 10 inches, on 3 loose sheets; moderate foxing, 2 short closed tears; faint early embossed stamp from a Nashville music shop in lower margin. New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1858

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first printing, without "piano" or "guitar" on title page. The Yellow Rose of Texas is a folk song which seems to date to the period of Texan independence; legend connects it to a mulatto woman named Emily West who seduced General Santa Anna on the eve of the Battle of San Jacinto. It first appeared in print here more than twenty years later, co-published by minstrel performer Charles H. Brown, for whom it was "composed and arranged expressly." The composer is given only as "J.K." Dichter & Shapiro, page 155; Fuld, pages 543-4.