J. K. (3)

The unidentified arranger and composer of a version of The Yellow Rose of Texas, an American folk song dating back to the 1830s. In 1858, the first copyrighted edition of the song was published in New York, and the cover reads, "Composed and Arranged Expressly for Charles H. Brown by J.K." It was common in 19th Century United States to keep "ghost" composers secretive, especially if a song had slave folksong origins.