Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl sings a 'Camptown Races' in its native language, almost

[Dick Applebaum <dick@lacara.com>]

I think it was a black ditty of the old South.   It may have been
written down and published by Stephan Foster.

Camptown ladies* sing this song, Do Da, Do Da
  Camptown race track's five miles long,
Oh, Do da Day.

Chorus:

Gwine (going to) ta run all night, Gwine run all day,
  I put my money on da bob-tailed nag,
Somebody, bet on the Bay.

Chorus

Horses run around da track, Do Da, Do Da
  It's five mile down & five mile back,
Oh, Do da Day.

Chorus

Went down dere with my pocket full o'tin, Do Da, Do Da
  Came back home wid ma hat caved in,
Oh, Do da Day.

Chorus

* ladies in these songs usually refer to ladies of pleasure or camp followers.


I think there are 5-6 other verses along these lines.

Unfortunately, these songs are considered racist and not PC... a whole
section of American history, right or wrong, is now being treated as if
it never happened.

I will try to go through some of my old folk music books & see if I can find
out more.

HTH

Dick


At 1:11 AM -0700 11/22/98, Xah Lee wrote:
>Totally cool! Wow! We are talking about technology here. (^_^)
>
>Some of us didn't grew up in the US. Can someone give some background
>of this song (e.g. was it children's song?) and the exact lyrics?
>Perhaps there is some webpages one can find out about this song?
>
>I'm running it on PowerMac 7500/100 with Mac OS 8.5. I set my tempo to
>41000 and the script took ~33 secs form cmd-shift-r to finish.
>
>I lost the original post. Who was the author (of the script)? Perhaps
>someone can tell me privately. (I'm going to save the script) Thanks.
>
>Yes, someone please make it sing Daisy.
>
> Xah, xah@best.com
> http://www.best.com/~xah/PageTwo_dir/more.html
> Mountain View, CA, USA
>
>
>Greenblatt & Seay writes:
> > I have a PowerCenter 120 (604). The tempo of the song is set on line 14.
> > It's a bit sluggish on my computer. How is it on faster or slower
>computers?
> >
> > David Seay
> > http://www.mastercall.com/g-s
>
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