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| • | "Oh My Darling, Clementine" is an American western folk ballad usually credited to Percy Montrose (1884), though sometimes to Barker Bradford. The song is believed to have been based on another called Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden by H. S. Thompson (1863).
The words are those of a bereaved lover singing about his darling, the daughter of a "49er", (a miner in the 1849 California Gold Rush). He loses her in a drowning accident – though he consoles himself towards the end of the song with Clementine's "little sister".
Oh My Darling, Clementine quickly became popular, especially with scouts and other groups of young people, as a campfire and excursion song, and there are several different versions of the words. (There is even a Scottish version, the Climbing Clementine, which begins "In a crevice, high on Nevis...") The lyrics most often sung are those shown below.
The last verse, about the little sister, was often left out of folk song books intended for children, presumably because it seemed morally questionable.
The song inspired a film about the O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, My Darling Clementine.
Tom Lehrer wrote a parody of the song, "improving" it by singing each verse in the style of a famous artist or genre: Cole Porter, Mozart, Jazz and Gilbert and Sullivan.
Source: [wikipedia: oh my darling, clementine]
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