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Camptown Races

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Camptown Races (1850)
by Stephen Foster

Comic song in African-American vernacular English. Official title is Gwine to Run All Night. It is also known as Camptown Ladies and De Camptown Races.

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25. Cts. net.

Published by F. D. BENTEEN Baltimore.

W. T. MAYO. New Orleans.

Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1850 by F. D. Benteen in Clerks Office of the District Court of Maryland

“GWINE TO RUN ALL NIGHT.”

or

DE CAMPTOWN RACES.

Words and music by
S. C. Foster.
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Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1850 by F. D. Benteen in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Md.

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De long tail filly and de big black hoss Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Dey fly de track and dey both cut across Oh! doo-dah-day!
De blind hoss sticken in a big mud hole Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Can’t touch bottom wid a ten foot pole Oh! doo-dah-day!
Cho: Gwine to run all night! &c.

3

Old muley cow come on to de track Doo-dah! doo-dah!
De bob-tail fling her ober his back Oh! doo-dah-day!
Den fly along like a rail-road car Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Runnin’ a race wid a shootin’ star Oh! doo-dah-day!
Cho: Gwine to run all night! &c.

4

See dem flyin’ on a ten mile heat Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Round de race track, den repeat Oh! doo-dah-day!
I win my money on de bob-tail nag Doo-dah! doo-dah!
I keep my money in an old tow-wag Oh! doo-dah-day!
Cho: Gwine to run all night! &c.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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