"'Eliza Jayne'" Topic
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| Mikey Rebel | 11 May 2012 6:22 a.m. PST |
Does anyone have the lyrics for 'Iliza Jayne' or know where to get them, my search has not been successful..
Cheers
Mike |
| MajorB | 11 May 2012 6:25 a.m. PST |
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| Mikey Rebel | 11 May 2012 6:40 a.m. PST |
margard,
dont think we had street cars in 1863,,, any others…. |
| MajorB | 11 May 2012 6:47 a.m. PST |
dont think we had street cars in 1863,,, any others…. Sorry, you didn't specify a particular time period. Seems there are several versions. That is often the way in the folk song tradition where lyrics are passed on orally. How about this one:
link With words like "thee" in it, it is more likely to be 19th century … |
| Old Slow Trot | 11 May 2012 6:50 a.m. PST |
There's an ACW reenactment unit that uses the song as their march. Don't recall exactly, the name of the outfit. Could be the 19th or 13th Virginia. I heard them sing that after the Saturday battle scenario as they marched back to their camp, at Sharon Woods Heritage Village last year in Sharonville,OH. |
 StoneMtnMinis | 11 May 2012 7:09 a.m. PST |
Actualy, horse-drawn streetcars were in use from the 1830's onward. Dave |
| zippyfusenet | 11 May 2012 8:17 a.m. PST |
One more verse: If you'll come and be my own,
Little Liza Jane,
We'll eat ham and sweet corn pone,
Little Liza Jane. That's all I've got. |
| Ed Mohrmann | 11 May 2012 8:59 a.m. PST |
Margard and StoneMtnMinis are each correct. Baltimore
and other cities had horse-drawn street cars, although
one version of the lyrics has : 'Got a house in Baltimore
lots of children 'round the door'. If you Google 'Little Liza Jane' you'll get a
number of hits for lyrics. |
| Pan Marek | 11 May 2012 11:09 a.m. PST |
A tune still in the repetoire of New Orleans jazz and brass band groups. |
| boy wundyr x | 11 May 2012 2:56 p.m. PST |
I have a wicked (as in great, not bawdy) version on a blues/jazz compilation CD, I think the version of Little Liza Jane dates back about a century or so. Some of the recordings on the CD were from cylinders, others were 78s. |
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