This song is by Dan Emmett. In association with Billy Whitlock, Dick Pelham, and Frank Brower, he organized the Virginia Minstrels, which made their first appearance before a paying audience at the Chatham Theatre in New York City in 1843. The group's full-length blackface performance is generally considered to have been the first true minstrel show. Dan Emmett is also credited with composing "Dixie" and "Polly Wolly Doodle". I play this in a medley with: "Campton Races" "Oh! Susanna" Both are by Stephan Foster and are in this section.