Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett , was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.
Of Irish ancestry, he was born at Mount Vernon, Ohio, then a frontier region.
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“But if you want to drive 'way sorrow, Come and hear this song tomorrow, Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land”
Daniel Decatur Emmett