{"id":1131,"date":"2018-12-08T20:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1131"},"modified":"2023-05-26T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T18:30:10","slug":"lousiana-belle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/lousiana-belle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou&#8217;siana Belle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1847 popular song<br>words and music by Stephen C. Foster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the first songs for which Stephen Foster wrote his own lyrics. Seems unlikely that a slave would be spelling, as most slaves were not allowed to read and write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheet music:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lousiana-Belle.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Lou&apos;siana Belle - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-08eca289-30fe-47a8-a90c-0a85ab8cf2fa\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lousiana-Belle.pdf\">Lou&#8217;siana Belle &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lousiana-Belle.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-08eca289-30fe-47a8-a90c-0a85ab8cf2fa\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accompaniment by Werner Tomaschewski:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-01f9b005-6e8f-4512-9f71-7f5588ac29c5\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lousiana-Belle-MIDI.mid\">Lou&#8217;siana Belle &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lousiana-Belle-MIDI.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-01f9b005-6e8f-4512-9f71-7f5588ac29c5\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Oh! Lou\u2019siana\u2019s de same old state<br>\nWhar Massa used to dwell<br>\nHe had a lubbly cullud gal<br>\n\u2019Twas the Lou\u00b4siana Belle<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br> Oh! Belle, don\u2019t you tell<br> Don\u2019t tell Massa, don\u2019t you, Belle<br> Oh! Belle, de Lou\u2019siana Belle<br> I\u2019s gwine to marry you, Lou\u2019siana Belle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. I went to de ball de udder night<br>I cut a mighty swell<br>I danced de Polka pigeon wing<br>Wid de Lou\u2019siana Belle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Dere\u2019s Dandy Jim ob Caroline<br>I knows him by de swell<br>Tryin&#8217; to come it mighty fine<br>Wid de Lou\u2019siana Belle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Dere\u2019s first de B and den de E<br>And den de double LL<br>Anodder E to de end ob dat<br>Spells Lou\u2019siana Belle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sung here by Fred Feild:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T43cp27cjiY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] a 1847 popular songwords and music by Stephen C. Foster One of the first songs for which Stephen Foster wrote his own lyrics. Seems unlikely that a slave would be spelling, as most slaves were not allowed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/lousiana-belle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lou&#8217;siana Belle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-if","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1131\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}