[Verginius Rufus]

They would probably reject "The Yellow Rose of Texas" as being heteronormative.

The same would be true for Marty Robbins' "El Paso."

[PAR35]

They would probably reject "The Yellow Rose of Texas" as being heteronormative

You must have missed the homosexual reference:

"We'll play the bango gaily"

And the original version, of course, starts like this: "There's a yellow rose in Texas, that I am going to see, No other darky knows her, no darky only me..." So the original version doubly embraces persons of color and then makes homage to the homo.

Of course, one would need to omit the verse added in 1864 which includes:

"You may talk about your Beauregard, and sing of Bobbie Lee,
But the gallant Hood of Texas played hell in Tennessee. "