- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- Southern old-time
- Form
- Reel
- Keys
- A and G
- Level
- 1
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
Charles Wolfe credited two 1920s records with spreading it among early country musicians: the Hill Billies' "Mountaineers Love Song" and the Tenneva Ramblers' "Miss Liza Poor Gal," both from East Tennessee bands. Bob Wills said "Goodbye, Miss Liza Jane" was the first tune he learned to fiddle.
Thomas Talley printed a version of the song as "Rejected by Eliza Jane" in his 1922 collection Negro Folk Rhymes. Dozens of floating couplets get sung to it, almost always ending "goodbye, Liza Jane."
Swing Ma, swing Pa, goodbye, goodbye, Swing that gal from Arkansas, goodbye Liza Jane. Oh how I loved her, ain't that a shame, Oh how I loved her, goodbye Liza Jane.