Song 23 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors · Song 12 in Ukulele for Beginners
Camptown Races
Also known as: Gwine to Run All Night, De Camptown Races
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Piano
For Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors.
Slow (70% speed) (1:17)
Learn with this one first.
Normal speed (0:55)
The speed printed on the page.
Play-along (0:55)
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Ukulele
For Ukulele for Beginners.
Slow (70% speed) (1:17)
Learn with this one first.
Normal speed (0:54)
The speed printed on the page.
Play-along (0:54)
Just the accompaniment, no tune: you play or sing the melody.
All the words
The Camptown ladies sing this song,
Doodah! doodah!
The Camptown racetrack five miles long,
Oh! doodahday!
I come down there with my hat caved in,
Doodah! doodah!
I go back home with a pocket full of tin,
Oh! doodahday!
Goin' to run all night!
Goin' to run all day!
I'll bet my money on the bobtail nag;
Somebody bet on the bay.The long tail filly and the big black horse,
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
They fly the track and they both cut across,
Oh! doo-dah-day!
The blind horse stickin' in a big mudhole,
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Can't touch bottom with a ten-foot pole,
Oh! doo-dah-day!Old muley cow come on to the track,
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
The bobtail fling her over his back,
Oh! doo-dah-day!
Then fly along like a railroad car,
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Runnin' a race with a shootin' star,
Oh! doo-dah-day!See them flyin' on a ten-mile heat,
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
'Round the racetrack, then repeat,
Oh! doo-dah-day!
I win my money on the bobtail nag.
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
I keep my money in an old tow-bag,
Oh! doo-dah-day!
About this song
- Music
- Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)
- Words
- Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)
- First published
- 1850 (F. D. Benteen, Baltimore)
- Copyright
- Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.