Camptown Races
by Stephen Foster
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- Key
- C major
- Tempo
- ♩ = 132
- Time
- 4/4
- Bars
- 5
- Level
- Easy · Difficulty 5 of 10
- Genre
- Folk songs
- Origin
- United States
- Composer
- Stephen Foster (1826–1864)
About this piece
A minstrel-show song by Stephen Foster, published in 1850. Because of the offensive minstrel tradition it came from, it is often performed with new words today; this is the tune only.
Why it is free to use
Stephen Foster died in 1864, more than 70 years ago, and the piece dates from about 1850. This encoding is our own; no published edition was copied.
About this score
This score of Camptown Races is a short excerpt (the opening, or the first verse of the song), not the whole piece. It was written by SampLab Pro from the public-domain music. It is not copied from any printed edition, MIDI file or recording. We place our score in the public domain (CC0 1.0): anyone may copy, change, share and use it, including commercially, without asking. The left hand is our own simple accompaniment, made from the chords of the tune.