5-string Banjo: Camptown Races (Including lyrics and chords)
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Uploaded by threelegsoman on May 10, 2010
Another Stephen Foster song, the following history comes from Wikipedia:
"Camptown Races", sometimes referred to as "Camptown Ladies", is a comic song in African American Vernacular English dialect. It was written in 1850 by Stephen Foster (1826 - 1864), known as the "father of American music", who was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century. The song's official title was "Gwine to Run All Night", and it is also known as "De Camptown Races".
"Camptown Races" was published in 1850 in Foster's Plantation Melodies (Baltimore: F. D. Benteen; New Orleans: W. T. Mayo, 1850). The Camptown of Foster's own experience was in Pennsylvania, but a camptown, or tent city, was a temporary workingmen's accommodation familiar in many parts of the United States, especially along the rapidly expanding railroad network. The rag-tag mix of horses that are racing, and the disorder of the racing conditions at the ramshackle camptown track, provide the fun, with the usual unspoken undercurrent of superiority among the entertained hearers.
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ima buyin banjo soon if always wanted to play one ima o to a lake in a special tree and play it all day
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@threelegsoman I'm sorry, I thought as I sent it I should not have made that assumption. Well you made me feel like I had a grandad in the room for 2:32 seconds. Keep on strumming friend.
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Great! Keep em coming !
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@morenewman Why?
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Outstanding performance.
Regards,
Greg
vulkan16 4 months ago
@vulkan16 Thank you Greg for your kind comment.
threelegsoman 4 months ago
I bet you make your grandchildren very happy :) Bravo sir, Bravo!
PnutButter1986 10 months ago 5
@PnutButter1986 Sadly I have no children, therefore no grandchildren.
threelegsoman 10 months ago
i've got to admit it pops from all versions of this song i've heard you beat them like waaaay bether and i've also have to admit you sing bether than some of the singers nowadays.
(no offence intended with the "pops")
Ass- Miguel
simasbrother 1 year ago
@simasbrother Thank you Miguel, and no offence taken :-))
threelegsoman 1 year ago