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Camptown Races
Stephen Foster's 'Camptown Races' was enormously popular in
his own time, and is still widely known and sung, almost a hundred
years later, though it is not often included in collections of folk
song. Our collection has but a single stanza of it.
No title. Reported by S. O. H. Dickson of Winston-Salem in 1913 as
having been a "favorite song of little darkies 'i)efo' de Wah.' "
I gone down town wid ma pockets full o' tin,
Dudab! Dudah !
I come back home wid my bat cave in,
Dudah! Dudah day!
Uudah ! Dudah day !
I boun' ter run all night,
I boun' ter wuk all day.
I bet ma money on de bob-tail horse —
Dudah! Dudah dav !