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LIZA JANE [4]. American, March (2/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A fifer's tune seemingly derived from a spiritual song known in northern West Virginia and southwestern Pa., perhaps "My Father's Gone to View That Land," "My Daddy," or one beginning "There is a happy land...". This melody is the one also familiar from the minstrel stage, and from children's songbooks of the 20th century.

Oh, Eliza, little 'Liza Jane,
Oh, Eliza, little 'Liza Jane.

Source for notated version: Marion Yoders (Greene County, Pa., 1961), Lloyd Grimm (Westmoreland and Greene Counties, Pa., 1960), Hoge MS and Mount Pleasant Tablatures {two of these sources cite Charlie Cook as their source} [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 394A-D, pp. 376-377. Ruth (Pioneer Western Folk Tunes), 1948; No. 97, p. 34.

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