The Yellow Rose of Texas

I know Christmas is over, but that song title made me think of Christmas carols, one in particular. As a young child, ‘reconciled' was not a word in my vocabulary, and when we sang ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing' and came to the line ‘God and sinners reconciled' I always had visions of a builders' merchant's yard with chimney pots and roof tiles. I thought the line was ‘God and sinners, red and tiled'. How God and sinners became red and tiled was not something that bothered my imagination. I just knew that they were.

So how does ‘The Yellow Rose of Texas' remind me of ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing'? Well, it might be a little convoluted, but I don't know the correct words to ‘Yellow Rose' (rather like Americans don't sing the correct words to our national anthem). The words I know are:

The Yellow Rose of Texas
And the Man from Laramie,
They went to Davy Crockett's
To have a cup of tea.

The tea was so delicious
They had another cup
And poor old Davy Crockett
Had to do the washing up.

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As we will be away for a week near the end of this month, I have started thinking about the February issue of Jungle Jottings and it made me wonder what has happened to our Yellow Rose of Texas? She hasn't posted Under the Pier for a long time. I liked to read the newsletter of Converse Lions Club while she was editor, and then the newsletter for her district when she took that on. I'm always on the lookout for bits and pieces for JJ and I found quite a few in both those other newsletters.

OK, Skip? Two hits in one?