The Yellow Rose Of Texas Summary

The year is 1861 and a neighbor, a teenage boy is sent of to fight in the civil war the teenager has talked about it since word broke about the war and that troops will be needed. But a problem that brings uncomfortable thoughts is that the boy is a free black person who is completely willing to go out and fight but for sure the boy will be killed if not by the opposing side but by the brothers the boy will fight beside. Looking at the yellow rose of texas and listening to the lyrics there is a darker meaning as they use Yellow which is a term for interracial people. Also the neighbor is 17 and the boy is in love with a woman on the opposing side. As this is thought about it comes to realization the round the country there are many people with that same problem.
From the analysis of these lyrics it won’t be hard to prove the narrator is also black. It makes it more obvious especially when is says “ no darky other than me” emphasys on the ME. Also another inference that can be made was that the girl in the song was black. “She’s the sweetest rose of color this darky ever knew” . This is one of the most obvious clue is when the narrator says “ She’s the sweetest rose of color”. It is also easy to assume that they were married and were separated by the war or even slave traders. How does this relate to american life now and even then? Things like that happened and this song is not about the voice of the people it is believed that this song was about the love of the people. it brings the fact that we do anything for things we want or people we love. The ideology of this song to the people who lived in the civil war era was that no matter the color of your skin or the bronze on your back they still had hearts and still breathed and lived like any other man white or any other color. The shows that slaves are the same and they will never be different black people are just