For a brief time in the 1850s, this songwriter called Hoboken home--Oh, de doo-da day
... A song my grandmother Essie Eleanor (Edwards) Stilson 
used to sing: The melody (I assume 4/4 time and think in the key of B flat-
represented... [DOC] [TLE] Camptown Ladies | Nursery Rhymes & Kids' Songs | BusSongs.com [PAR] Oh, de doo-da day.