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"Little Dutch Girl", sometimes called "Liza Jane" is an American reel in A Major
(Beisswenger & McCann, Davis) or G Major (Phillips). The parts are played AB (Silberberg)
or AABB (Beissenger & McCann, Davis, Phillips).
It is a popular old-time session tune. According to Drew Beisswenger (2008), both sources Earl Collins and Missouri fiddler Bob Holt heard the tune played in Douglas County, Mo., when they were young. This is the second "Little Dutch Girl" tune associated with the Collins family; however, Marion Thede did include this melody in The Fiddle Book (1967, collected from Oklahoma fiddler Joe Wilsie) albeit under the title "Liza Jane", perhaps because this floating verse was associated with it: I'll go down the new cut road,It was printed in Davis' Devil's Box, vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring 1987), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994), Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002), Thede's The Fiddle Book (1967) or Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008). It was recorded by The Boiled Buzzards on The Marimac Anthology: Deep in Old-Time Music and Earl Collins on That's Earl (1975). |