My Heart's Tonight in Texas [Laws B23]

DESCRIPTION: A rancher's daughter and her lover must part; the girl's father is sending her to England in hopes that she will marry a nobleman. Eventually an earl proposes to her, but she will marry none but her Texas Jack
AUTHOR: Words: Robert F. Roden / Music: Albert Witt (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1900 (sheet music published by Joseph W. Stern & Co.)
KEYWORDS: separation love
FOUND IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Laws B23, "My Heart's Tonight in Texas (By the Silvery Rio Grande; Texas Jack)"
List-SingingAboutIt-FolkSongsInSouthernIndiana, pp. 179-183, "My Heart's Tonight in Texas" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, p. 525, "My Heart's Tonight in Texas" (1 text)
ArkansasWoodchopper, pp. 38-40, "By the SIlv'ry Rio Grande" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 841, HRTEXAS*
Roud #635
ALTERNATE TITLES:
By the Silvery Rio Grande
Texas Jack
NOTES [83 words]: A piece called "Down by the Silvery Rio Grande" was published in 1913 as by Dave Weisberg, R. F. Roden, and Charles Speidel. I have not seen it, but it is evidently not the original version of this.
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 251, estimates that this was the seventh-most popular song in America in November 1900 (#1 for the year being James Thornton's "When You Were Sweet Sixteen"). - RBW
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File: LB23

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