Goodbye Liza Jane
Notation:
Standard Notation
ABC Notation
Mandolin Tablature
Violin Tablature
traditional
PDF Files:
--- choose file type ---
Standard Notation
Mandolin Tablature
Violin Tablature
Tune Sheet
Standard Notation - wide
Mandolin Tablature - wide
Violin Tablature - wide
American
Play
MIDI
No audio
available
Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Goodbye Liza Jane", also known as "Liza Jane" or "Going Down to Cairo" is an Ameican<br> reel and cut time in A Major (most versions), G Major (Kuntz) or D Major (Silberberg).<br> The parts are played AB (Silberberg) or AABB (most versions).<br> Two influential recordings were made of the tune in the 1920's which helped spread its<br> popularity among early country musicians. The first was by the east Tennessee string<br> band The Hill Billies, who released it under the title "Mountaineers Love Song" and the<br> second was by another band from the same area, the Tenneva Ramblers, as "Miss Liza Poor<br> Gal". Bob Wills of Texa), the father of western swing, said this was the first tune he<br> learned (as "Goodbye, Miss Liza Jane") to fiddle.<br> A version of the tune and song, under the title "Rejected by Eliza Jane" was collected<br> by the African-American collector Thomas Talley and printed in his book Negro Folk<br> Rhymes (1922, reprinted 1991 edited by Charles Wolfe).<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Stephen F. Davis' Devil's Box, vol. 13, no. 3, Sept. 1979,<br> Kuntz's Ragged but Right (1986),<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: Old Time Southern (1989) and <br> Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by Bobby Hicks on Texas Crapshooter (1978),<br> Reno and Smiley on Banjo Special (1962),<br> Kyle Creed on Blue Ridge Style Square Dance Time (1972),<br> Delaware Water Gap on From the Rivers of Babylon to the Land of Jazz (1979)<br> (Appears as "Liza Jane"),<br> Judy Henske on High Flying Bird (1963),<br> Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger and Larry Eisenberg on American Playparties (1959),<br> Bob Wills and Mel Tillis on Mel Tillis and Bob Wills in Person (1971),<br> The Tenneva Ramblers (78 RPM) (1927) (as "Miss Liza, Poor Gal"),<br> The Hill Billies (78 RPM) (1926, as "Mountaineers Love Song") and many others.<br>
Click
here
for a full page view.