{"id":4295,"date":"2021-11-06T05:06:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T05:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2025-08-19T00:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:41:20","slug":"camptown-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/camptown-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Camptown Races"},"content":{"rendered":"

[D] Camptown ladies sing this song, [A7] Doo-dah! doo-dah!\u00a0 [D] Camptown race-track five miles long, [A7] Oh, doo-dah [D] day!<\/span>
\n[D] I came down with my hat caved in, [A7] Doo-dah! doo-dah!<\/span>\u00a0 [D] I’m goin back home with a pocket full of tin, [A7] Oh, doo-dah [D] day!<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – – – [D] Going to run all [G] night! Going to run all [D] day!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll bet my money on the bob-tail nag,<\/span>\u00a0 [A7] Somebody bet on the [D] bay.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[D] The long tail filly and the big black horse, [A7] Doo-dah! doo-dah!<\/span>\u00a0 [D] They fly the track and cut across the course, [A7] Oh, doo-dah-[D] day!<\/span>
\n[D] The blind horse stuck in a big mud hole, [A7] Doo-dah! doo-dah!\u00a0 <\/span>[D] Can\u2019t touch bottom with a ten foot pole, [A7] Oh, doo-dah-[D] day!
\n<\/span>\u00a0– – – – – { CHORUS } – – – – –
\n<\/span><\/span>[D] Old brown cow come on to the track, [A7] Doo-dah! doo-dah!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>[D] The bob-tail fling her over his back, [A7] Oh, doo-dah-[D] day!<\/span>
\n[D] They fly along like a rail-road car, [A7] Doo-dah! doo-dah!<\/span>\u00a0 [D] Like runnin\u2019 a race with a shootin\u2019 star, [A7] Oh, doo-dah-[D] day!
\n<\/span>\u00a0– – – – – { CHORUS } – – – – –
\n<\/span><\/span>[D] See them flyin\u2019 on a ten mile heat, [A7] Doo-dah doo-dah!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>[D] Round the race track, then repeat, [A7] Oh, doo-dah-[D] day!<\/span>
\n[D] I put all my money on the bob-tail nag, [A7] Doo-dah! doo-dah!<\/span>\u00a0 [D] I hauled my money in an old tow-bag, [A7] Oh, doo-dah-[D] day!
\n<\/span>\u00a0– – – – – { CHORUS } – – – – –<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[D] Camptown ladies sing this song, [A7] Doo-dah! doo-dah!\u00a0 [D] Camptown race-track five miles long, [A7] Oh, doo-dah [D] day! [D] I came down with my hat caved in, [A7] Doo-dah! doo-dah!\u00a0 [D] I’m goin back home with a pocket full of tin, [A7] Oh, doo-dah [D] day! { CHORUS … CLICK TO VIEW SONGCamptown Races<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,95,116,117,115,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-animals","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-ukulele-beginners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}