Guy Carawan - The Yellow Rose of Texas lyrics

She's the sweetest rose of color That Texas ever knew Her eyes are bright as diamonds They sparkle like the dew You may talk about your dearest May And sing of Rosa Lee The Yellow Rose of Texas Is the only girl for me And I'm going to find her For my heart is full of woe And we'll sing the song together We sang so long ago We'll play the banjo gaily And we'll sing the song of yore And the Yellow Rose of Texas Shall be mine for ever more Where the Rio Grande is flowing The starry skies are bright She walks along the river In the quiet summer night She thinks if I remember When we parted long ago I promised to come back again And never leave her so There's a yellow rose of Texas That I am going to see No other fellow knows her No other, only me She cried so when I left her It like to broke my heart And if I ever find her We never more will part She's the sweetest rose of color That Texas ever knew Her eyes are bright as diamonds They sparkle like the dew You may talk about your dearest May And sing of Rosa Lee But the Yellow Rose of Texas Is the only girl for me