Camptown Races

"Songs my father taught me to love"
Lew Dite with his banjo uke.

THE WORDS & CHORDS TO THIS SONG AT
www.youtube.com/LDsongscreen

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Music

Tags:

• Lew
• Dite
• Stephen
• Foster

[threehappypenguins]

EVERY DAY my 2 year old son asks to see and listen to this video. He says "Doo-Dah! Doo-Dah!" when he asks. And then I play it and he starts dancing.

[lewdite]

@threehappypenguins Thank you for that…

[Pippomero]

I first "met" Camptown Races in Stephen King's "IT" and since that time I promised myself to listen to this song:Great,really great,you're doing such a nice work to make these old songs live once again(Digging my potatoes is one of my favourite).Greetings from Italy and sorry for my bad english

[lewdite]

@Pippomero Thank you for your generous words…

[ksavage9]

Makes me smile...I'm trying to learn this to play for my son. If you don't mind me asking, what strum pattern are you using? Could you describe your exact thumb motion/tempo? I Love it! Thanks!

[lewdite]

Like you I've looked at the video and I can't really see what I am doing and I don't have any method that I can describe other than that I only use my thumb and I sometimes brush up as well as down across the strings, but mostly it is a down brush. You just have to feel the rhythm of the song through your thumb.

Good luck!

[lewdite]

Since 50 years...

[Quietschquatsch]

I know this song from the Foghorn leghorn cartoons!^^

[codplayerben]

you really brightened up my day.

[tubulardude44]

It's an old minstrel song from the Civil War era. Foghorn Leghorn sang it all the time when he was in a good mood!

[MrClydekewl]

I fought in Iraq and i take offense to this song.

[MrKiely415]

Loved it! Great job!

[perikorozo]

Thank you very much for this song :)

[F4rl30d]

I just sing this song also

but now that i see him singing it i find out that i song it really bad :(