Another Stephen Foster song, the following history comes from Wikipedia:
“Camptown Races”, sometimes referred to as “Camptown Ladies”, is a comic song in African American Vernacular English dialect. It was written in 1850 by Stephen Foster (1826 – 1864), known as the “father of American music”, who was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century. The song’s official title was “Gwine to Run All Night”, and it is also known as “De Camptown Races”.
“Camptown Races” was published in 1850 in Foster’s Plantation Melodies (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.

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