Theatrical racism featuring blackface performances.

Racist theatrical performances caricaturing blacks.

Synonym of coon song

A balcony or loft for musicians in a hall or church.

a British light entertainment show that ran for twenty years on BBC prime-time television.

the eighth studio album by British rock band Jethro Tull, released in September 1975.

By request of Moore to James Power during publication, the harmonized air of the song (as found in the Gibson-Massie collection of the Irish Melodies at Queen's University Belfast) is in the key G major, whilst this, the solo of the song, is (in Moore's words) a "note lower" in F major.