Liza Jane
David Bowie; Davie Jones & the King Bees; The King Bees Lyrics

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Well, I got a girl that's so good to me (little Liza)
Well, now she ain't more than five foot three (little Liza)
Well, this little girl is so good to me (little Liza)
Yeah, this little girl's nearly half of me (little Liza)

[Chorus]
Little Liza Jane [Repeat: x4]

I got a girl, ? (little Liza)
Yeah, this little girl turn me upside down (little Liza)
Well, all of the little girls that I had (little Liza)
You know this little girl drives me to despair (little Liza)

[Chorus]

Yeah, I got a girl who loves me true (little Liza)
Now she ain't more than five foot two, yeah (little Liza)
You know this little girl is so good for me, yeah (little Liza)
You know this little girl's nearly half of me (little Liza)

[Chorus]

Oh yeah, I love her
Little Liza Jane
Well, I'm coming back to me love

Cause she's driving insane
When will I meet her

Overall Meaning

The song Liza Jane by David Bowie is an upbeat and lively tune that talks about a girl, little Liza, who is shorter in height but brings immense joy and love to the singer. The singer describes how good this little girl is to him and how she drives him crazy in a sweet way. He tells us that he had many other girls, but they couldn't compare to the love and care he receives from little Liza, and she turns him upside down, driving him to despair at the same time. The chorus of the song is a repetition of little Liza Jane four times, which creates an exciting and joyful ambiance.

Overall, the song is a celebration of love and affection for a girl who brings happiness to the singer. The singer appreciates her good-hearted nature and describes her as his true love by rejoicing her fondly in the chorus. The choice of the name Liza Jane also signifies simplicity and happiness, which relates to the song's whimsical tone.

Line by Line Meaning

Well, I got a girl that's so good to me (little Liza)
I have a girlfriend who treats me very well, her name is little Liza.

Well, now she ain't more than five foot three (little Liza)
Little Liza is not tall, she is only five foot three inches.

Well, this little girl is so good to me (little Liza)
Little Liza is very kind to me.

Yeah, this little girl's nearly half of me (little Liza)
Little Liza is very small compared to me, she is almost half my size.

[Chorus]Little Liza Jane [Repeat: x4]
Refrain

I got a girl, ? (little Liza)
I have a girl named little Liza, but the next line is incomplete so it's unclear what is being conveyed.

Yeah, this little girl turn me upside down (little Liza)
Little Liza has a profound effect on me, she makes me feel disoriented and confused.

Well, all of the little girls that I had (little Liza)
I had many girlfriends before, but now I have little Liza.

You know this little girl drives me to despair (little Liza)
Little Liza causes me great torment and anguish.

[Chorus]Little Liza Jane [Repeat: x4]
Refrain

Yeah, I got a girl who loves me true (little Liza)
Little Liza loves me very much and is faithful to me.

Now she ain't more than five foot two, yeah (little Liza)
Little Liza is even shorter now, she is only five foot two inches.

You know this little girl is so good for me, yeah (little Liza)
Little Liza is very beneficial to me.

You know this little girl's nearly half of me (little Liza)
Little Liza is still very small, she is almost half my size.

[Chorus]Little Liza Jane [Repeat: x4]
Refrain

Oh yeah, I love her
I love Little Liza Jane.

Little Liza Jane
Refrain

Well, I'm coming back to me love
I am returning to the one I love, Little Liza.

Cause she's driving insane
She is making me feel crazy, but I am still drawn to her.

When will I meet her
Uncertain. Perhaps the artist is wondering when he will be reunited with Little Liza.

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: LESLIE CONN

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@mtheapotheosis

Well, I got a girl that's so good to me
(Oh, little Liza)
Well, now she ain't more than five foot three
(Oh, little Liza)
Well, this little girl is so good to me
(Oh, little Liza)
Yeah, this little girl's nearly half of me
(Oh, little Liza)
Little Liza Jane
Little Liza Jane
Little Liza Jane
Little Liza Jane
I got a girl, duh-duh-goo-to-duh
(Oh, little Liza)
Yeah, this little girl turn me upside down
(Oh, little Liza)
Well, I like all little girl had
(Oh, little Liza)
You know this little girl drive me to despair
(Oh, little Liza)
Little Liza Jane
Little Liza Jane
Little Liza Jane
Little Liza Jane
Yeah, I got a girl who loves me true
(Oh, little Liza)
Now she ain't more than five foot two, yeah
(Oh, little Liza)
You know this little girl is so good for me, yeah
(Oh, little Liza)
You know this little girl's is half of me
(Oh, little Liza)
Little Liza Jane
Little Liza Jane
Little Liza Jane
Little Liza Jane
Oh yeah, I love her
Little Liza Jane
Well, I'm coming back to me love
'Cause she's driving insane

All comments from YouTube:

@thebloodbaby

8y↑101

FROM LIZA JANE TO BLACKSTAR, YOU WAS ALWAYS A STAR. ♥ RIP DAVID JONES/BOWIE ♥

@jack7431

8y↑54

How the hell wasn't this a hit?! Such a good song and fits very well with the music of the time.

@WhoniversalReviews

6y↑10

Maybe that was the reason why

@MikeGreenwood51

5y↑1

They were a short lived entity and folded soon after. Of course the promotors are not looking to back finished groups. Their mum phoned saying she had hundreds of their records and they told her to chuck them away. Compare it with backing a horse and when the promotors realise the hourse is going to turn right past the stadium and leave the arena they drop the hot property ASP. It's a weely race and there are other horse in the next race.

@shamus12

3y↑3

It was derivative crap, sadly. And there was far better derivative crap available to listen to at the time...

@user-xc8pv4ip2f

Too primitive

@Mauricegibb1112

22w

Bowie had a Habat of leaving bands between (1962-1966) with little exspenation

@fernandokosovel600

8y↑58

I can't believe is Bowie singing,seems like a mix of Lennon and Little Richard,he later declares he was almost obsessed by the time with that R'n'R pioneer

@MartinZiegert

4y↑5

I agree but doesn't shows what a flexible Voice he had,? And thanks god it was a flop, imagine that would have become a Hit ... it would be possibly his end before he really start ...

@Syfoll

4y↑3

More of a younger and nasal sounding George Harrison I'd say

@waynenorthspacebuoy3529

2y↑2

Fabulous ... I hope my Bowie Interpretations make him smile far far away ... so cool.

@jackd.flippin6656

4y↑8

Just imagine, this is where it all began. I love it.

@pietajanssenvanelst2167

1965/1966 hoorde ik dit op Radio Luxemburg en dacht aan Dave Clark five, maar het was Davey Jones. Later de Starman David Bowie! Wat een ontwikkeling als mens en muziekant!

@LED1512

8y↑3

Thankyou Dave.
RIP (and rock)

@Meekseek

8y↑15

Rest in peace... ★
“The moment you know you know you know.”
~☮ David Bowie ♪ ♡

@shelleyganz9095

3y↑1

HIS KOOLEST BY FAR!! REALLY NAILED IT!! WELL DONE...

@billtaylor4224

11y↑6

June 5, 1964. I was 11 1/2. Already had the beatles and the stones in my brain.

@MikeGreenwood51

17th Dec 52. An Elizabethan Capricorn born on a Leap year 1952.

@ledrotten

12y↑13

Bowies first band ,first record ,went no where ,but just listen to that enthusiasim,great track ,definitly hinting at a bright future ,l love it ...

@jackd.flippin6656

But ironically, sometimes you have to go nowhere to go somewhere. And from there it gets better.

@robertwilken8745

2y↑2

@ ledrotten
Bowie formed his first band in 1962. The Konrads.

@OnlyGoodMusic_

37w

his first band is the konrads

@mustlovepretzels

4y↑2

Right now I am reading "Bowie's Bookshelf". Great book and I enjoy it as much as this song. Cheers!

@BrianSmith-vl7xu

10y↑10

50 years old this week

@douglasarthur2673

8y↑4

Am loving the guitar break on this. Very much of its time.

@jeanmichellelaurent

6y↑5

Awww Wittle Fetus Bowie

@katw4213

8y↑13

I have this single. I didn't expect to find it on Youtube... wow.

@MsKittenLips

8y↑6

+Kat W Lucky you!

@kenneymusic

3y↑1

I'm glad it's here, so I don't have to play my copy.

@Mr2046

8y↑51

He really wanted to be the Beatles at this point. By the time of his first album, it sounded like he wanted to be the Stones. Thankfully, he found his own voice and soul!

@glazinghost5951

8y↑2

Wrong
And wrong

@widM_

7y↑7

His first album is nothing like the Stones.

@mariaquiet6211

Ray Charles...?

@joshbaino3087

His first album is more like Donovan than anything else

@kingporter67

This is a super 1965 King Bees song!!

@WedgePee

5 June 1964.

@christineduggan6594

8y↑5

R.I.P Mr. Bowie.. you will be missed <3

@lizajane54

9y↑22

That's me!

@yvesmaker

+lizajane54 who?

@JoseGomez-ys3zs

6y↑1

Superb song!

@lukedryden4223

11y↑2

This is my favorite Vinyl so far

@ezraeyes2876

9y↑7

excellent!

@kennethlawrence1864

7y↑5

Wild, Wild, Wild !! What a great track. Luckily, it's been reissued on vinyl single twice. Once on Decca in 1978 and recently on the original Vocalion label. Originals would set you back US$1000 or more.

@damienobrien8675

8y↑29

R. I. P David your in the big mod sky

@ledrotten

11y↑6

Yea ,but this was" Bowie's " first band , not a band where he played sax ,and occasional backing vocals for ,even if they did record one of his compositions, The Kon-rads is a band were he stood in the wings an said to himself " I can do it better" The King Bee's is where he stood out front and proved it...

@Koscina51

8y↑7

They're tight!

@Sumkilla

8y↑2

salute, fellow star traveler!!

@littlemonkeys4903

8y↑33

How can he sound so much like John Lennon????? LOVE IT!!!!

@MikeGreenwood51

5y↑2

Because you have no idea of any difference from a Merseyside accent to London accent. The singer sounds more like early sixties Mr.Mick Jagger than and Merseyside beat singers. But then Mr Jagger was also a Londoner.

@chrisbacos

4y↑1

@@MikeGreenwood51 Actually Mick Jagger is from a city to the southeast of London called Dartford in County Kent.

@jontyhawkes5332

@@MikeGreenwood51 Actually that`s Sir Mick Jagger if you don`t mind :D

@mjh5437

@@chrisbacos Dartford isn`t a city.

@chrisbacos

@@mjh5437 You must that it's a town as opposed to a city.

@siladex-gaming

6y↑20

is this the same guy who sung for I'm Afraid Of Americans?

@azu4855

Yep!

@thefleshexperience

In his youth, he was obsessed with Americans.

@bobminer5965

5y↑1

A Fuckin Beat Group Classic. I Wish I Had It On The Original Label But I'll Settle For The Pressing On U.K Decca.

@electricwildflower715

6y↑3

Really wished Bowie would of explored that early R&B sound more because this song it's blinding stuff!!

@MikeGreenwood51

5y↑1

It wasn't his. He was in the band yes. But recently arrived and played sax. They were their local group who others wanted to join. So David was available and was asked to join. IE it was in existence before David arrived.

@VileJackie

5y↑1

Bob is my favorite.

@MrJoeybabe25

8y↑9

Wow! How old was David here? He had it then!

@bayardcatron6710

8y↑3

+Joe Postove he was 15

@Vaisin

8y↑6

+bayard catron 17 I think

@lethayle3388

8y↑14

+Joe Postove 17. This was in 1964 so very early Bowie. he has a really cool voice

@MikeGreenwood51

@BIGBALKANBROTHERS

8y↑16

r.i.p. David Bowie

@MM-vs2et

Wow, Rock n Roll Bowie, or Jones, I should say. Can't say that I'm a fan of this, I like his work after this phase

@JoeRivermanSongwriter

1y↑1

This is as good as any song in this style of that era but it probably didn’t go anywhere due to its similarity to so many other songs.

@WedgePee

45w

There was too much good music in circulation.

@fridafernando9298

4y↑2

❤️

@mtheapotheosis

@isaacstephanomunguiaii7188

4y↑5

Gonna tell my kids this was The Beatles.

@brothergoodfoot

31w

I am bending my ear but I just can’t recognize Bowie’s voice in there. He’s really the lead singer here!? By Laughing Gnome he sounds just like him.

@slimyfisher1370

Bowie wanted so dearly to be a pop star. It was his biggest dream. Granted, EVERYBODY who pursues a life in popular music wants to be a star, but Bowie's attempts have always been a bit more obvious than most because he's based his entire career on ripping off other peoples' sounds. "Oh! He's such a chameleon! Always changing!" Yep, changing to match his surroundings. Although the world will forever be grateful to him for saving Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, the man has never had a creative idea in his life. And he has ALWAYS been this way -- for proof, check out this collection of early Bowie singles and demos dating from 1964 to 1966. Let's see what kind of innovative ideas we have here. First there are four tracks by "Davie Jones with the King Bees" and "The Mannish Boys," presenting Bowie as a gritty blues-rocker like the Stones or Yardbirds, but with a punch-in-the-mouthingly raspy, nasally voice and the stupidest fake American accent since George Washington (prickin' Limey cur). When this approach failed to pan out, Dave moved on to drafting some man-and-his-guitar Gene Pitney/Donovan ripoff dicktrickle with greatly improved vocals but still not much in the way of melody. No hits there either, eh? Why then, how about some Who-style rave-up garage Nuggets? Surely there'll be a hit THERE, yes? No. A couple of the songs are Friggin' GREAT and definitely SHOULD have been hits (!!!), but quality alone was never enough to satisfy the young Jones' yearnings. He was in it for the fame, not the self-actualization. Thus he moved on to uncompelling Jonathan King ballads, gentle Association hippy pop, girl-group imitation (David Bowie with The Lower Third!?), orchestral pop, swing jazz, bubblegum - ANYTHING FOR A POTENTIAL HIT! But no go. The optimist would argue that Jones/Bowie's early stylistic flailings simply show that he is a man of many musical styles and interests. However, (a) most of the songs are so cliched and un-non-in-compelling that it's clear he knew Jack Schidt about songwriting, and (b) he was pretty obviously just following trends in hopes of finding success on somebody else's proverbial coattail. (Or CAT tail! Ow! Can you imagine stepping on a cat's tail? Ha! We all can, yet NONE of us can!) I mean, I don't really CARE either way, and certainly he wasn't the only songwriter to follow musical fads in the '60s - I guess I'm just tired of Bowie being celebrated as a trailblazer when he was actually a born follower of limited abilities. How indeed has one man managed to write and record so many grievously bland songs encompassing so many different styles? (And I don't just mean from '64 to '66).

@Dirksketches

10y↑42

wow sounds very much like the beatles

@loujudson

8y↑3

+Dirksketches More like stones to me... except the voice!

@paisleybabee

11y↑8

This kind of has an early Pretty Things feel

@Gurneyface

8y↑3

Rest in peace...

@davidharris2385

Have a listen on Youtube to 'L'il Liza Jane" by 'Huey 'Piano' Smith and The Clowns' from 1957, which had to be the inspiration for this version

@zetafuzztone

8y↑17

The begginnings of Ziggy Stardust

@martymartz6872

5y↑2

He sounds so different

@PwnytailJoe

8y↑7

R.I.P. David

@mjh5437

2y↑1

Sounds like a poor mans Yardbirds.

@mrtyles

8y↑63

He sounds like John Lennon here.

@dolomonspov5079

Right like one of the Beatles.

@MikeGreenwood51

Mr Jones is not singing on the recording. He's playig sax.

@dragicapetrovic9470

10y

Superb ~ <3 ~ :D:P

@moorlock2003

US group The Liverpool Five also did this song, and also flopped with it.

@Jipwell

The thought of David Bowie being called Davie scares me. Imagine if that stuck…

@b.rodclark7349

7y↑2

Wonder where's Liza Jane now

@nesalejan7700

Beatles +Rolling Stones

@MrJosuesini

This epic record was sold for $6944 on Discogs...

@Sparkina

The Man who would be the Thin White Duke and the Emperor of the Musical Universe

@dplatt7290

4y↑1

I think he's trying to sound like Keith Relf. Bowie admired the Beatles and especially Lennon but at the time (mid 1964) the Yardbirds were the "hip" band in the UK.

@ericsilberstein667

Proto-Punk

@bardo0007

10y

So his real name is Davie Jones? I never knew this. Why did he change his surname to Bowie?

@TastyBurgerFilms

10y↑10

the lead singer of The Monkees was called Davy Jones so he had to come up with a stage name.

@helloofthebeach

9y↑6

His legal name is still David Jones, though! (The director Duncan Jones is his son, once known as Zowie Bowie.)

@seriousdraw

10y

No, you come in bags.

@moorlock2003

I prefer the B side, Louie Go Home.

@agustinasanchez7906

5y↑2

this sound like "thor and dr.jones"

@MESSIEURSLUMIERE

11y

Bowies second band actually. First being the Kon-rads ('Baby it's too late').

@stenightingale4021

10y↑1

crap

@l.salisbury1253

40w↑1

Check out the cover by the (very) obscure US punk band AKA (1981)...

@lippy123445

❤️

@RAMLIA1

❤️

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