New Orleans, Camp Street Theatre. A little more-
A brother had sent the singer, Caldwell a copy of the Samuel Woodward (a New Yorker, composer of the "Old Oaken Bucket") song cut from the New York Mirror. Caldwell says: "The tune, to which they [the words]seemed adapted, was taken from the comic opera of "Love Laughs at Locksmiths," being Risk's song of "Miss Bailey." The "... pit, or parquette, of the theatre crowded full of 'river men', that is, keel-boat and flat-boat men. These men are easily known by their linsey-woolsey clothing and blanket coats. There were very few steamboat men."
The singer borrowed a buckskin shirt and leggins from a river man for the performance.