The song is in a familiar tragi-comic mode popular in its period, and probably influenced by earlier songs with a similar theme, such as Percy Montrose's "My Darling Clementine", which was written in about 1880.
Pesma je u poznatom tragi-komičnom obliku popularnom u tom periodu, verovatno pod uticajem starijih pesama slične tematike, kao što je ,,My Darling Clementine” od Percy Montrose, koja je napisana oko 1880. godine.