He was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, where his father was a barber who loved music and inspired Billy to teach himself to play the mandolin at the age of three, while suffering from measles. He went on to learn a number of other instruments.
In 1941 Vaughn joined the United States National Guard for what had been planned as a one-year assignment, but when World War II broke out, he was sent abroad till the war ended in 1945. He decided to make music a career when he was discharged from the army at the end of the war, and attended Western Kentucky State College, now known as Western Kentucky University, majoring in music composition. He had apparently learned barbering from his father, because he did some while studying at Western Kentucky to support himself financially, when he was not able to get jobs playing the piano at local night clubs and lounges. While he was a student there, three other students, Jimmy Sacca, Donald McGuire, and Seymour Spiegelman, who had formed a vocal trio, the Hilltoppers, recruited Vaughn to play the piano with them. He soon added his voice to theirs, converting the trio to a quartet. As a member of the group, he also wrote their first hit song, "Trying," which charted in 1952.
"Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races" (popularly known as "Camptown Races") is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). (Play) It was published by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore, Maryland, in February 1850. Benteen published another edition in 1852 with guitar accompaniment under the title, "The Celebrated Ethiopian Song/Camptown Races".
Richard Jackson writes,
In The Americana Song Reader, William Emmett Studwell writes that the song was introduced by the Christy Minstrels, and noting that "[Foster's] nonsense lyrics are much of the charm of this bouncy and enduring bit of Americana ... [The song] was a big hit with minstrel troupes throughout the country." Foster's music was used for derivatives that include "Sacramento", "A Capital Ship" (1875) and a pro-Lincoln parody introduced during the 1860 presidential campaign.
Al Jolson as E P Christie sings the "Camptown Races"
published: 31 Jul 2011
Camptown Races
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Camptown Races · 2nd South Carolina String Band
Hard Road
℗ 2000 2nd South Carolina String Band
Released on: 2000-01-01
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published: 06 Oct 2015
Camptown Races
"Camptown Races" sometimes referred to as "Camptown Ladies" is a comic song written by Stephen Foster (!826-1864) and published in 1850 in Foster's Plantation Melodies. Stephen Foster is known as the father of American music and was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century.
The Camptown of Foster's own experience was in Pennsylvania, but a "camptown," or tent city was a temporary workingmen's accomodation 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 fun, with the unspoken undercurrent of superiority among the entertained hearers.
(D) Camptown ladies sing a song
(A7) Doo dah, d...
published: 06 Feb 2009
Johnny Cash - Camptown Races
Bell Telephone Hour 1959
published: 23 Mar 2008
Camptown Races (With Lyrics)- Stephen Collins Foster Arr.Peter.M.Adamson
Another classic song by Stephen Foster. The film show includes the first film ever made of a race horse by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, enhanced with modern technology.to create a race effect. The song is from The album "Keeping The Old Songs Alive" is available to download online or can be heard on Amazon Echo (Music Unlimited)
published: 10 Apr 2012
Camptown Races
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Camptown Races · 2nd South Carolina String Band
Hard Road
℗ 2000 2nd South Carolina String Band
Released on: 2000-01-01
Auto-...
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Camptown Races · 2nd South Carolina String Band
Hard Road
℗ 2000 2nd South Carolina String Band
Released on: 2000-01-01
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Provided to YouTube by CDBaby
Camptown Races · 2nd South Carolina String Band
Hard Road
℗ 2000 2nd South Carolina String Band
Released on: 2000-01-01
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"Camptown Races" sometimes referred to as "Camptown Ladies" is a comic song written by Stephen Foster (!826-1864) and published in 1850 in Foster's Plantation M...
"Camptown Races" sometimes referred to as "Camptown Ladies" is a comic song written by Stephen Foster (!826-1864) and published in 1850 in Foster's Plantation Melodies. Stephen Foster is known as the father of American music and was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century.
The Camptown of Foster's own experience was in Pennsylvania, but a "camptown," or tent city was a temporary workingmen's accomodation 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 fun, with the unspoken undercurrent of superiority among the entertained hearers.
(D) Camptown ladies sing a song
(A7) Doo dah, doo Dah
(D) Camptown racetrack five miles long
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Come here with my hat caved in
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Come back home with a pocket full of tin
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
The long tailed filly and the big black hoss
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) They fly the track, they both cut across
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
The Black hoss stickin' in a big mud hole
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Can't touch the bottom with a ten foot pole
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
Old mulely cow come on to the track
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) The bob-tailed throwed her over his back
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
They fly along like a railroad car
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Running a race with a shooting star
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
See them flying on a ten mile heat
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Round the racetrack then repeat
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
I win my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) I keep my money in an old tow bag
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
"Camptown Races" sometimes referred to as "Camptown Ladies" is a comic song written by Stephen Foster (!826-1864) and published in 1850 in Foster's Plantation Melodies. Stephen Foster is known as the father of American music and was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century.
The Camptown of Foster's own experience was in Pennsylvania, but a "camptown," or tent city was a temporary workingmen's accomodation 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 fun, with the unspoken undercurrent of superiority among the entertained hearers.
(D) Camptown ladies sing a song
(A7) Doo dah, doo Dah
(D) Camptown racetrack five miles long
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Come here with my hat caved in
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Come back home with a pocket full of tin
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
The long tailed filly and the big black hoss
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) They fly the track, they both cut across
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
The Black hoss stickin' in a big mud hole
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Can't touch the bottom with a ten foot pole
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
Old mulely cow come on to the track
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) The bob-tailed throwed her over his back
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
They fly along like a railroad car
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Running a race with a shooting star
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
See them flying on a ten mile heat
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Round the racetrack then repeat
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
I win my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) I keep my money in an old tow bag
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
Another classic song by Stephen Foster. The film show includes the first film ever made of a race horse by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, enhanced with modern tech...
Another classic song by Stephen Foster. The film show includes the first film ever made of a race horse by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, enhanced with modern technology.to create a race effect. The song is from The album "Keeping The Old Songs Alive" is available to download online or can be heard on Amazon Echo (Music Unlimited)
Another classic song by Stephen Foster. The film show includes the first film ever made of a race horse by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, enhanced with modern technology.to create a race effect. The song is from The album "Keeping The Old Songs Alive" is available to download online or can be heard on Amazon Echo (Music Unlimited)
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Camptown Races · 2nd South Carolina String Band
Hard Road
℗ 2000 2nd South Carolina String Band
Released on: 2000-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
"Camptown Races" sometimes referred to as "Camptown Ladies" is a comic song written by Stephen Foster (!826-1864) and published in 1850 in Foster's Plantation Melodies. Stephen Foster is known as the father of American music and was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century.
The Camptown of Foster's own experience was in Pennsylvania, but a "camptown," or tent city was a temporary workingmen's accomodation 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 fun, with the unspoken undercurrent of superiority among the entertained hearers.
(D) Camptown ladies sing a song
(A7) Doo dah, doo Dah
(D) Camptown racetrack five miles long
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Come here with my hat caved in
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Come back home with a pocket full of tin
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
The long tailed filly and the big black hoss
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) They fly the track, they both cut across
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
The Black hoss stickin' in a big mud hole
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Can't touch the bottom with a ten foot pole
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
Old mulely cow come on to the track
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) The bob-tailed throwed her over his back
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
They fly along like a railroad car
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Running a race with a shooting star
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
See them flying on a ten mile heat
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) Round the racetrack then repeat
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
I win my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Doo dah, doo dah
(D) I keep my money in an old tow bag
(A7) Oh the doo dah (D) day
Going to run all (G) night
Going to run all (D) day
Bet my money on the bob-tailed nag
(A7) Somebody bet on the (D) bay
Another classic song by Stephen Foster. The film show includes the first film ever made of a race horse by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, enhanced with modern technology.to create a race effect. The song is from The album "Keeping The Old Songs Alive" is available to download online or can be heard on Amazon Echo (Music Unlimited)
He was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, where his father was a barber who loved music and inspired Billy to teach himself to play the mandolin at the age of three, while suffering from measles. He went on to learn a number of other instruments.
In 1941 Vaughn joined the United States National Guard for what had been planned as a one-year assignment, but when World War II broke out, he was sent abroad till the war ended in 1945. He decided to make music a career when he was discharged from the army at the end of the war, and attended Western Kentucky State College, now known as Western Kentucky University, majoring in music composition. He had apparently learned barbering from his father, because he did some while studying at Western Kentucky to support himself financially, when he was not able to get jobs playing the piano at local night clubs and lounges. While he was a student there, three other students, Jimmy Sacca, Donald McGuire, and Seymour Spiegelman, who had formed a vocal trio, the Hilltoppers, recruited Vaughn to play the piano with them. He soon added his voice to theirs, converting the trio to a quartet. As a member of the group, he also wrote their first hit song, "Trying," which charted in 1952.
I discovered the valley of the shifting, whispering sands While prospecting for gold in one of our western States I saw the silent windmills, the crumbling water tanks The bones of cattle and burros, picked clean by buzzards Bleached by the desert suns I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sands And stopping to rest, I heard a tinkling, whispering sound Then suddenly realized that even though the wind was quiet The sand did not lie still I seemed to be surround by a mystery So heavy and oppressive I could scarcely breath For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley Seeking answers to the many questions That raced through my fevered mind Where was everyone Why the white bones The dry wells The barren valley where people must have lived and died Finally I could go no farther My food and water gone I sat down and buried my face in my hands And resting thus, I learned the secret Of the Shifting, whispering sands How I managed to escape from the valley I do not know But now to pay my final debt for being spared I must tell you what I learned out on the desert So many years ago When the day is awfully quiet And the breeze seems not to blow One would think the sand was resting But you'll find this is not so It is whispering, softly whispering As it slowly moves along And for those who stop and listen It will sing this mournful song Of sidewinders and the horn toads Of the thorny chaparral Endless sunny days and moonlit nights The coyotes lonely yell Of the stars seem you could tough them As you lay and gaze on high At the heavens where we're hoping We'll be going when we die Yes it always whispers to me Of the days of long ago When the settlers and the miners Fought the crafty Navajo How the cattle roamed the valley Happy people worked the land And now everything is covered By the shifting, whispering sands How the miner left his buckboards Went to work his claims that day And the burro's broke their halters When they thought he'd gone to stay Wandered far in search of water On to old sidewinder's well And there, their bones picked clean by buzzards That were circling when they fell How they found the ancient miner Lying dead upon the sand After months they could but wonder If he died by human hand So they dug his grave and laid him On his back and crossed his hands And his secret still is hidden By the shifting, whispering sands This is what they whispered to me On the quiet desert air Of the people and the cattle And the miner lying there If you want to learn their secret Wander through this quiet land And I'm sure you'll hear the story Of the shifting, whispering sands