Sing Along with Mitch!

The Strange Racial History of One Weird Song

Trigger with higher billing than Dale Evans

(This is the first part of a two-part essay. Part Two here.)

I’ve given way too much thought to way too many old songs. A song I’d never given any thought to, though, until the other day, is “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” Now I’ve decided that it’s one of the weirdest songs we have.

Before I had this revelation, and…