The Yellow Rose of Texas
Billy May

Nobody else could miss her
Not half as much as me
She cried so when I - pardon me
That's just a shade loud on the snare drum

She's the sweetest little rosebud
That Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds
They sparkle like the dew

See now you covered up sparkle like the dew
One of the lovliest parts in the whole

Texas is the only girl for me

He covered up the picallos there
Where the Rio Grand is
Where the Rio
Where
Wh-

See my feeling is while I love a good snare drum,
I feel that volume wise it's just a little too much what you're doing there.
See? See, see what I mean? Now you try and hold it there.
I appreciate it.

Where the Rio Grand (I appreciate it)
Where the Rio Grand is flowing
And starry skies (that's better)
She walks along the river
On the quiet (oh that's so much better)
I know that she remembers
When we parted long ago
(You know that there's just a world of difference, oh mercy)

She's the sweetest little rosebud
That Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds
They sparkle like the dew

See you're slipping back into your old habits again.
Why do you do that. Why do you

Texas is the only girl for me!

I love a good snare drum but - hold it hold it hold it.
People people let's go back there the snare drummer covered up the tra-la-las.
We just do it again, smart Alec.

Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

You see how lovely that turned out? Now that's a darling part.
OK banjo...yug-dugga-dugga. That's purty. That's purty.
Oh now I'm gonna (that's purty)
For my heart is full of woe
We'll do the things together
We did so long ago
We'll play the banjo gaily
She'll love me like (banjo drowns out)

Excuse me, you ain't any kin to the snare drummer, are you?

She's the sweetest little rosebud
That Texas ever knew

Why do you do that? Why do you burst out like that? It irritates me.
That irritates me. That irritates me, that's all.
But the yellow rose of Texas

HOLD ON! HOLD ON! Hold on you smart Alec Yankee drummer you!
You can cover up rose, you can cover up yellow, buddy,
But don't you cover up TEXAS!
Or I'll stick your head through that cotton-pickin snare drum
And secede from the band so help me Mitch Miller I will!

And the yellow rose of Texas will be mine forever more

Cut it off there. The record's over, you idiot.
Stop it, stop it I say. Just stop it, stop it.
I'm getting out of here

He ruined the ending, one of the lovliest parts in the whole...
Piece!


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Lyrics by Billy May

  Adios   All the Way   Angel Eyes   Autumn Leaves   Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes)   Azure   Blues in the Night   Bye Bye Blackbird   Cheek to Cheek   Cuban Love Song   Deep Purple   East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)   Easy to Love   Ebb Tide   Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue   Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My G...   Frenesi   Get Out of Town   High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)   I Fall in Love Too Easily   I Get a Kick Out of You   I Want to Be Happy   If I Had You   If I Were a Bell   In Love in Vain [Centennial Summer]   It Happened in Monterey   Just You, Just Me   Love for Sale   Love Is Just Around the Corner   Lover, Come Back to Me   Lullaby of the Leaves   Me and My Shadow   Moonlight Becomes You   My Devotion   My Heart Cries for You   Niña   Night and Day   Nina   No Greater Love   On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe   On the Sunny Side of the Street   Perfidia   Pick Yourself Up   Rags to Riches   Riverboat Shuffle   Secret Love   Six Lessons from Madame la Zonga   South of the Border   St. Louis Blues   Star Eyes   Strangers in the Night   Street of Dreams   Stumbling   Sweet and Lovely   That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All D...   The Blue Moon   The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)   The Shadow of Your Smile   The Sheik of Araby   The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?)   The Song Is You   Them There Eyes   There Is No Greater Love   Unforgettable   Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)   When My Sugar Walks Down the Street   When My Sugar Walks Down the Strreet   When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano   Yellow Bird   You Go to My Head   You Make Me Feel So Young   Young at Heart

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