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"Camptown Races" is a comic song in broad, stereotyped negro "dialect" by Stephen Foster, published in 1850 in Foster's Plantation Melodies as sung by the Christy & Campbell Minstrels and New Orleans Serenaders, Written Composed and Arranged by Stephen C. Foster (Baltimore: F. D. Benteen; New Orleans: W. T. Mayo, 1850). The Camptown of Foster's own experience was in Pennsylvania, but a "camptown", or tent city was a temporary workingmen's accommodation 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 the fun, with the usual unspoken undercurrent of superiority among the entertained hearers.

In pop culture

In Blazing Saddles, white railroad bosses attempt to cajole black laborers to sing the song (called "Camptown Ladies" in the movie), but the workers feign ignorance of it.

Reference

University of Toronto: lyrics and information about the song

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	"'''Camptown Races'''" is a comic song in broad, stereotyped negro "dialect" by [[Stephen Foster]], published in 1850 in ''Foster's Plantation Melodies as sung by the [[Christy Minstrels\|Christy & Campbell Minstrels]] and New Orleans Serenaders, Written Composed and Arranged by Stephen C. Foster'' (Baltimore: F. D. Benteen; New Orleans: W. T. Mayo, 1850). The [[Camptown, Pennsylvania\|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 the fun, with the usual unspoken undercurrent of superiority among the entertained hearers.		"'''Camptown Races'''" is a comic song in broad, stereotyped negro "dialect" by [[Stephen Foster]], published in 1850 in ''Foster's Plantation Melodies as sung by the [[Christy Minstrels\|Christy & Campbell Minstrels]] and New Orleans Serenaders, Written Composed and Arranged by Stephen C. Foster'' (Baltimore: F. D. Benteen; New Orleans: W. T. Mayo, 1850). The [[Camptown, Pennsylvania\|Camptown]] of Foster's own experience was in Pennsylvania, but a ''"camptown"'', or tent city was a temporary workingmen's accommodation 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 the fun, with the usual unspoken undercurrent of superiority among the entertained hearers.

	==In pop culture==		==In pop culture==