Lyrics
(Folk song)
1. Scraping up sand in the bottom of the sea, Shiloh*, Shiloh,
Scraping up sand in the bottom of the sea, Shiloh, Liza Jane.
Refrain
Oh, how I love her, O Liza Jane,
Oh, how I love her, Goodbye, Liza Jane.
2. Black those shoes and make them shine…
3. A hump-backed mule I’m bound to ride…
4. Hopped up a chicken and he flew upstairs…
*Shiloh is a location mentioned in the Bible. Its name means “peace.”
See also
- Country: US
- Subject: love
- Form: AB
- Harmony: I, IV, V / Orff
- Melody: low do & high do / tonic triad
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm: syncopation /
/ 
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: s,drmsld’
- Source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
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- Printable & Digital Visuals
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas + Orff arrangement
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
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I remembered parts of this song we used to sing in school over 40 years ago.
Thanks for the lyrics and YouTube song.