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Po' Liza Jane
The first two lines of stanza 2 appear in a number of songs. Cf.
White ANFS 247 (Alabama), and Scarborough TNFS 106. 162.
164 (Virginia). Substantially the same song (from Mississippi),
with the order of the stanzas reversed, appears in Perrow JAFL
XXVIII 180.
From Miss Lucy Cobb, Chapel Hill, c. 1929.
Chorus:
Go long, pt)' Liza Jane, go long, po' Liza Jane!
I turned my head to the ole grey horse,
Co long po' Liza Jane.
I 1 ast her would she marry me ;
She ast me wasn't I shamed ;
1 turned my head to the ole gre\- horse,
Go long po' Liza Jane.
1 went up to the new-cut road,
And she went down the lane ;
I turned my head to tlie ole grey horse,
Go long po" Liza Jane.