The group performs it in the style of country blues, with vocals, an acoustic slide guitar in an open D tuning, and piano.
[1][2] The song is named after the Border Collie[3] Seamus (belonging to Humble Pie leader Steve Marriott) who howls throughout the 2:15 piece.
[4] Group biographer Nicholas Schaffner calls the tune "dispensable"; David Gilmour added "I guess it wasn't really as funny to everyone else [as] it was to us".
[6] For the 2016 surround sound mix of the film, released as part of the box set The Early Years 1965–1972 (2016), "Mademoiselle Nobs" was omitted for undisclosed reasons.
[8] Classic Rock Review further said that Pink Floyd fans have ranked "Seamus" as one of their worst songs.