Jenny Get Around
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Jenny Get Around", also known as "Jenny Get 'Round" or "Ginny Git 'Round"<br> is an old-time song and breakdown in A Major. It is played in<br> AEae fiddle tuning. The parts are played AABB. The tune is known as an eastern<br> Kentucky tune, popular with both fiddlers and banjo players.<br> Jeff Titon (2001) says that<br> the tune is related to one of the "Liza Jane" melody types and points out<br> similarities between the 'A' part of "Jenny Get Around" and the 'B' part of Clyde<br> Davenport's "Liza Jane". Mark Wilson points out relationships between "Jenny..."<br> and the "Sugar Hill" tune family. Titon calls it a regional eastern Kentucky tunes<br> and finds it listed twice on the Berea, Kentucky, tune lists of 1915. However it<br> is known in the Ozarks as well. It is often sung with banjo accompaniment and was<br> collected as a song by John and Alan Lomax, who printed it in their book Our<br> Singing Country (1941).<br> This version is from the playing of John Salyer (1882-1952) of Salyersville,<br> Magoffin County, eastern Kentucky.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher who learned it from the playing of<br> Bruce Greene and Burt Feintuch.<br> It was also printed in Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle<br> Tunes (2011),<br> Pete Seeger's How to Play the 5-String Banjo (1962),<br> Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Music (2001).<br> It was recorded on John M. Salyer: Home Recordings 1941-1942, vol. 2 (1993),<br> Gerry Milnes (et al) on Gandydancer,<br> Lee Sexton on Whoa Mule (1988),<br> Morgan Sexton on Rock Dust (1989) and<br> Clare Milliner and Walt Koken on Just Tunes.<br>
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