Jane, Jane

DESCRIPTION: "Hey, hey, Jane, Jane, My Lordy, Lord, Jane, Jane, I'm gonna buy, Jane, Jane, Three mocking birds, Jane, Jane, One a-for to whistle...." "I'm gonna buy... Three hunting dogs... Three muley cows... Three little blue birds...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1957 (SeegerFamily-AmericanFolkSongs)
KEYWORDS: bird playparty nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Seeger-FolkSongsOfPeggySeeger, p. 37, "Jane, Jane" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 392, "Jane, Jane" (1 text)

RECORDINGS:
Peggy Seeger, Penny Seeger, Barbara Seeger, "Jane, Jane" (on SeegerFamily-AmericanFolkSongs)
NOTES [76 words]: Charles Seeger's liner notes to SeegerFamily-AmericanFolkSongs: Jane Jane (Three Mockingbirds) -- a Negro ring game from Mississippi, in which there is one player who steals partners and jumps while the song is sung. Melodically it is akin to Stewball, with its answer-back chorus and short solo, and is a popular Negro song pattern." I suppose the Stewball pattern he has in mind is like Texas Gladden's "Old Kimball" (indexed as "Skewball [Laws Q22]") - BS
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