"Liza Jane", also known as "'Lasses Cane", “Little Dutch Girl” and "Poor Liza Jane" is an old time breakdown.
The “Liza Jane” family of tunes includes a number of related variants going by a variety of related titles, such as “Old Time Liza Jane”, “Poor Liza Jane”, “'Lasses Cane”, “Goodbye Liza Jane”, “Little Liza Jane” and so on. In the repertoire of Uncle Jimmy Thompson (1848-1931).
It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983), Phillips's Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994), Thede's The Fiddle Book (1967) and Thomas & Leeder's The Singin’ Gathering (1939).
It has been recorded by both folk and jazz performers from 1917 to the present.
It was recorded in 1939 for the Library of Congress by Herbert Halpert from the playing of Newton County, Mississippi, fiddler Hardy Sharp (b. 1884). It was also recorded by The Carter Brothers and Son, The New Lost City Ramblers and Alan Jabbour.