Johnny Lee & Lane Brody:
The Yellow Rose of Texas


Johnny Lee & Lane Brody: The Yellow
Rose of Texas (TV show, 1984)
Lee-Brody: The Yellow Rose of Texas
(Country Family Reunion Nashville)

Johnny Lee & Lane Brody: The
Yellow Rose of Texas (lyrics)
The Bridge
guitar chords


Music & Lyrics: Edwin Pearce Christy (1853)


There's a yellow rose in Texas,
I'm going home to see.
Though other men have held her,
Her heart belongs to me.

You've traveled down some dusty roads,
Slept out in the rain.
But this yellow rose is always here,
When you come home again.

She knows, I've done some hard time.
You stumbled, then you fell.
I just kept your pride from dyin'.
You saved my soul from hell.

She's the diamond of the desert.
She's the golden flower of spring.
She's the yellow rose of Texas.
She can make a man a king.

There's a yellow rose in Texas.
She knows the dues, I've paid
And I'm going home to tell her:
I wish, I'd never strayed.

You couldn't see beyond yourself,
Your pain and wounded pride.
But now you know, the truth is
In the way you feel inside.

She knows, I've done some hard time...
She's the diamond of the desert...

Yes, the yellow rose of Texas
Can make a man a king.