"The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a traditional American folk song dating back to at least the 1850s. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.

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

And 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've stumbled and you fell

I just kept your pride from dying

You saved my soul from hell

She's a diamond of the desert

She's a golden flower of spring

She's the yellow rose in 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 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

You've stumbled and you fell

I just kept your pride from dying

You saved my soul from hell

She's a diamond of the desert

She's a golden flower of spring

She's the yellow rose in Texas

She can make a man a king

Yes the yellow rose of Texas

Can make a man a king.