Dear Hank--

Wanna kick this up a notch?? I dunno what instrument you're on or how you play it, but flat-picking Camptown in E on a guitar is a lovely primrose path to walk down to go from thank-you-I-just-chord to I'm-tired-singing-let-me-pick the melody. If you have half an ear, you can prob'ly find the right notes; I almost think it's better making you work them out yourself. That will force you to internalize what a major scale is.

But regardless of all that, here's one possible enhancement/substitution on the chorus. E C#m A E Gwine to run all NIGHT, gwine to run all day.

The other nice thing about this key is the majors and the minors can be played with very little left hand finger movement. Notice that with E major and A minor your fingers are in the same relative position?? OK. Now make those chords with middle, ring and pinkie instead of index, middle and ring. That leaves index free for the dreaded "bar" (barre to you, Pierre). E is standard; C#m is Am barred at 4. Then it's the smallest distance to A played as an E barred at 5.

I do run on at times. Tell me if this makes any sense.