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Saro Jane

Source Recording: Country Gazette (1982)

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Key G Time 4/4

Verse

G / /G /

/G / /G /

/G / /G /

/G / /G /

/G / /G /

Em / /Em /

C / /C /

G / Em /

Chorus

G / /G /

/G / /G /

C / /C /

G / /G /

C / G /

Em / /Em /

G / /G /

D / G /

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Song Details

Also Known As

Rockaby My Saro Jane, Rock About My Saro Jane, My Saro Jane, Rock About My Sara Jane

Songwriter

Traditional

First Release

Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers (1927)

Genres

Traditional Old-Time Traditional Bluegrass

Jam Popularity

History

“Saro Jane” — more fully “Rock About My Saro Jane” — is a traditional riverboat song. It is generally thought to date to around the time of the Civil War, and it most likely originated among the African American stevedores who loaded and unloaded the steamboats of the Cumberland and Mississippi rivers.

Further reading: Secondhand Songs

Source Recording

Artist

Country Gazette

Album

America’s Bluegrass Band cover

America’s Bluegrass Band (1982)

Key G Time Boom-Chuck Tempo 154 BPM Length 2:36

Musicians

Roland White — Lead Vocals, Mandolin
Joe Carr — Backup Vocals, Guitar
Alan Munde — Banjo
Bill Smith — Backup Vocals, Bass

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