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Kelly Harrell- 1925
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- Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs- Shearin & Combs
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- Brown Collection of NC Folklore- Volume 2 Ballads
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- Poetic Origins and the Ballad- Louise Pound 1921
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- The British Traditional Ballad in North America
- Folk-Songs of the South- John Harrington Cox 1925
- The Southern Mountaineer in Fact and Fiction
- A Pioneer Songster- Douglass 1841-1856 Thompson
- Folk-Song of Nebraska & Central West- A Syllabus
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- Memory Melodies- Middle TN Folk-Songs- 1947
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- Ballad of Lady Isabel & theFalse Knight- Kemppinen
- John Henry: A Folk-Lore Study- Louis Chappell 1932
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436. Eliza Jane (I)

Eliza Jane ( I)

See W'liite ANFS 172-4 for a history of the song, several vari-
ants, and references to other coUections containing it.

'Li'l Liza Jane.' From Miss Tina Fussell, Snow Hill, Greene county,
c. 1920-21.

1 I got a gal and you got none,

Li'l Liza Jane.
I got a gal and you got none,
Li'l Liza Jane.

Chonis:

Oh, Eliza, li'l Liza Jane,
Oh, Eliza, li'l Liza Jane.

2 House and lot in Baltimore,

Li'l Liza Jane,
Lots of chilluns round de floor,
Li'l Liza Jane.

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