LITTLE EGYPT is the name for the portion of Southern Illinois in the USA where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers converge at the town of Cairo, IL. I understand, therefore, the steamboat reference; that seems on the up-and-up. BUT I really doubt if Morris Dancing, with what Stan Rogers called, "It's lumbering knuckle-dragging Neanderthal beat!!", would ever have made an appearance anywhere near that part of the USA. The denizens down there know better !!!