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