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Lyrics to Liza Jane

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tom

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Jun 24, 2001, 12:51:09 AM6/24/01
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Does anyone know any more of the lyrics to the song Goodbye Liza Jane?
The only ones I'm familar with are,
Charlotte town is burning down
goodbye, goodbye
Charlotte town is burning down
goodbye Liza Jane


Duc de Savoie

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Jun 24, 2001, 8:27:00 AM6/24/01
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>Does anyone know any more of the lyrics to the song Goodbye Liza Jane?

Charlotte Town is burning down,
Goodbye, goodbye.
Burning down to the ground,
Goodbye, Liza Jane.

CHORUS:
Oh, how I miss you
Ain't that a shame,
Oh, how I miss you
Goodbye, Liza Jane.

ALT. CHORUS:
Ain't y'mighty sorry?
Goodbye, bye-bye
Ain't y'mighty sorry?
Goodbye, Liza Jane.

Liza Jane had a dress of red,
Goodbye, goodbye,
Queen of hearts, or so she said,
Goodbye, Liza Jane.

Liza Jane countin' her toes
You can smell her feet wherever she goes.

I got a gal and a hound dog too,
She don't bite, but the hound dog do.

Liza Jane 'bout half grown,
Jumps on a man like a dog on a bone

Liza Jane, pretty as a rose,
Bites her nails and picks her nose.

Bud

Phil and Carol Good-Elliott

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Jun 24, 2001, 11:38:32 PM6/24/01
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in article 3B3571BC...@teleport.com, tom at bet...@teleport.com wrote
on 6/24/01 12:51am:

Part A
Goin' down to Caro,
goodbye, goodbye,
Goin' down to Caro,
goodbye Liza Jane.

Part B
Well, I blacked my boots and I made 'em shine,
goodbye, goodbye.
I blacked my boots and I made 'em shine,
goodbye Liza Jane

Lyle & Elizabeth Lofgren

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Jun 25, 2001, 9:08:58 AM6/25/01
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In case you've not run across this version before, it's from the
general area of Missouri or Arkansas, so "Caro" refers to Cairo,
Illinois, where the Ohio meets the Mississippi. It's pronounced
KAY-row.

Bob Bovee and Gail Heil have an excellent version of this song on a
1985 LP, "For Old Time's Sake" (Train on the Island TI-12). I'm not
sure if it's been reissued as a CD. I hope so, because it's a
terrific recording.


Phil and Carol Good-Elliott

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Jun 25, 2001, 6:58:57 PM6/25/01
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in article 9h7d15$1c4$1...@laurel.tc.umn.edu, Lyle & Elizabeth Lofgren at
lofg...@maroon.tc.umn.edu wrote on 6/25/01 9:08am:

>>>
>
>> Part A
>> Goin' down to Caro,
>> goodbye, goodbye,
>> Goin' down to Caro,
>> goodbye Liza Jane.
>
>> Part B
>> Well, I blacked my boots and I made 'em shine,
>> goodbye, goodbye.
>> I blacked my boots and I made 'em shine,
>> goodbye Liza Jane
>
> In case you've not run across this version before, it's from the
> general area of Missouri or Arkansas, so "Caro" refers to Cairo,
> Illinois, where the Ohio meets the Mississippi. It's pronounced
> KAY-row.
>

Yup. I "grew up" in St. Louis and learned that version at Kimmswick Dance
Weekend many years back when it was at the original site. I learned while
contradancing to the tune - the whole dance floor would break-out into song
after we nailed the dance figures.
-Phil
--
Phil, Carol, and Benjamin Good-Elliott

"Life is a child playing around your feet, a (mandolin) you hold (lightly)
in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden (to
play mandolin)." - apologies to Jean Anouilh


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