This is a VERY popular song in the New Orleans Brass Band repertoire, played and sung at every social-and-pleasure-club second line parade, every jazz funeral, etc. It has survived for decades, through many evolving changes in musical trends. People just love it, and no other song inspires a comparable level of audience-participation sing-along-ing on the chorus.

"Liza Jane" generally serves as a vehicle for newly improvided lyrics; you hear new two-line rhyming couplets every time you hear the song.

I was a little surprised to see the name "Eliza" in the title here. We generally pronounce it "L'il Liza," as in "HO! L'il Liza, L'il Liza Jane," with a very emphatic, percussive first-syllable "HO!"

For good examples of this song performed in contemporary New Orleans street-parade style, look up Kermit Ruffins (either as former frontman for the Rebirth Brass Band or with his own Barbeque Swingers), New Birth, Dirty Dozen, Hot 8, Nightcrawlers, Treme, Olympia, etc. All the brass bands play it, but without doing a bit of research, I'm not sure off the top of my head which ones and how many have released recordings.

(PS: I have grave doubts about "Composed by Countess Ada de Lachau, 1916." If ever there was a traditional folk-processed song, this is surely one. Maybe this Countess was one of those former aristocrats who had fallen on hard times, and had to resort to a questionable royalty claim to support herself in the manner to which she had become accustomed.)