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Charlie Baum	Origins: Few Days - I Can't Stay in These Diggins (36)	RE: Origins: Few Days - I Can't Stay in These Diggins	21 Nov 22
I have been doing some research into songs about camping, and my speculation is that the original verse I pitch my tent on this camp ground, few days, few days. And give old Satan another round, And I am going home. I can't stay in these diggin's, few days, few days. I can't stay in these diggin's, I am going home. derives from a camp meeting song, which was ripe for parody in or around 1954. The Christy Minstrel's version (above) is consistent with a parody still set in a camp meeting setting, although the other versions, which I presume follow that one, take it into political directions, whether know-nothing or abolitionism, or gold-mining. --Charlie Baum

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