THE ROSE OF TEXAS 🧡 ANGELA & BRIAN 💙 AN ACROSTIC SONNET !

A FRIEND ~ WHO ARRANGES FLOWERS ~ SENT US THIS IKABANA

ARRANGEMENT OF YELLOW ROSES AND IT SPAWNED THE POEM ~ AMEN !

WE APOLOGISE FR POSTING IN ORANGE ~ BUT YELLOW IS NOT VISIBLE ! 

T HE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS ~ A GREAT SONG !

H ave you ever been to TEXAS ? A State

E veryone should visit ~ Full of Life !

R OSES are very symbolic Flowers

O UR ROSE of Lancashire ~ RED ~ Yorkshire

S hining WHITE ! Wars between the Counties ~ Were

E ntitled as *The War of the Roses*

O RIGIN of the Song is of interest

F ocuses on TEXAS - MEXICAN WAR (see comment below)

T EXAS is a Very Large State and its .......

E XTENT is three times larger than UK 

X PECT everything BIGGER in TEXAS ! 

A T-Bone Steak ~ could feed FOUR ~ A TEXAN

S TETSON is bigger than an UMBRELLA !

Thnaks for visiting ~ comments welcome ~ Love Angela & Brian  💛💛💛 

The YELLOW ROSE is not the STATE FLOWER of TEXAS (Blue Hibiscus)

The YELLOW ROSE of TEXAS (in song) was a MULATTO Afro-American

named EMILY WEST. She was from New York but she worked on the 

Plantation of Colonel James Morgan in TEXAS ! When the Mexican Santa

Anna & His Troops arrived He claimed WEST to take the place of His

*Stay at home Wife* this was to sap his strength and be His downfall !

SANTA ANNA was captured (in the Battle of San Jacinto) by SAM

HOUSTON. Emily Wests Afro-American Lover composed *The Yellow

Rose of Texas* in Her honour ~ while He was separated from Her.

It is a very Popular Folk Song and a book has been written about

Emily West. The song has been recorded by many Singers including

BING CROSBY & ELVIS PRESLEY ! I trawled YOU TUBE and consider

 VIDEO by the Late Great ROY ROGERS the BEST ~ ENJOY ~ AMEN !