Yellow Rose of Texas

The original Yellow Rise of Texas was Emily Morgan, Santa Anna's mulatto mistress.

Her name was Emily Morgan, and she was the sweetest little rosebud that Texas ever knew. She was, in fact, the Yellow Rose of Texas. That song is not, as you may have thought, simply a celebration of a rather blah ideal of Lone Star womanhood. It is an homage to the accidental heroine of Texas independence.

Our story begins in April 1836, a panicky time for the nascent Republic of Texas. The Alamo had fallen, the garrison at Goliad had been massacred, and the newly elected government was in flight. Sam Houston, in command of a restive volunteer army heavily outnumbered by Santa Anna’s seasoned troops, was busily conducting a combination strategic retreat and basic training program.

There lived at that time, near a settlement called New Washington, at the mouth of the San Jacinto River, an indentured servant girl named Emily Morgan. She was, as Martha Anne Turner writes in her seminal work The Yellow Rose of Texas: Her Saga and Her Song, a “comely mulatto . . . exceptionally intelligent, as well as beautiful.” Emily was a member of the household staff of James Morgan, a North Carolina merchant who had made his fortune in Texas real estate and who, at the time of Santa Anna’s approach, was away commanding the rebel forces on Galveston.

The army that Santa Anna led across the plains of Texas was a formidable force, but it did not move with lightning speed. It was burdened with its commander’s three-room carpeted tent, his opium cabinet, his champagne supply, and—since the sacking of Harrisburg—a piano. Santa Anna, it hardly needs to be said, was not shy about his creature comforts in the field. When his eye fell upon Emily Morgan, the generalissimo was smitten. Whether the attraction was mutual we do not know, but the mulatto girl quickly became one of the spoils of Santa Anna’s campaign.
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Yellow rose of Texas means Amarillo

yellow = amarillo .....just indicates the color in spanish

red = rojo

blue = azul

green = verde

Mixed race blacks with light complexions were called high yellows back in the day.

Looks 👍 The Ewing ranch

There used to be a strip club in Austin called "The Yellow Rose." Probably not there anymore because that city is full of liberals, gays, and metrosexuals.

The yellow rose is endangered.

It is a well known fact that the Yelliw Rose on Lamar has the best damn dancers in Texas - they recruit from the undergrads at UT Austin . Girls basically pay for their education by grinding on the crotch of off-duty DPS troopers )just down the street).

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WTF?

Amarillo in Spanish is Yellow in English, but where do you get the rest?

I used to drive by there once a week. 20 years ago. don't know if its still there