Sing Along with the Confederate Army!

Mitch Miller and "The Yellow Rose of Texas," Part Two

(This is the second part of a two-part essay.)

Weep no more, my ladies.

We now know, having explored the issue in Part One, that the song “The Yellow Rose of Texas” preceded the Civil War by a good bit, despite the lyrics that Hoyt Axton sings in his rendition—those lyrics about General Lee and other Confederate leaders. We know too that the song began it…