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“Camptown Races”

Cultural  
  1. A song by Stephen Foster. It begins:

    Camptown ladies sing dis song,

    Doodah! doodah!

    Camptown racetrack five miles long,

    Oh! doodah day!


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And I enrolled in a Thursday evening adult beginner, group piano class, where I could make new friends while competitively learning to play “Camptown Races” every night during the recommended 30-minute practice sessions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2019

This Peyton Manning commercial for DirecTV includes “really high voice” Peyton singing “Camptown Races” in a barbershop quartet.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2015

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