WARNING: This is a blackface minstrel song, a genre that features demeaning caricatures rooted in racism and white supremacy.

This song was submitted for copyright on October 18, 1847, by W. C. Peters of Cincinnati. None of the early published editions of “Lou’siana Belle” credit Foster as the composer, but an autographed manuscript and a letter from Foster to publisher William Millet prove it. 

The first score below was used for the Foster Hall Reproductions.