![]() ![]() Oh my darling, oh my darling, Oh my darling, Clementine! Thou art lost and gone forever Dreadful sorry, ClementineĪ PDF file of the score is displayed below. How I missed her! How I missed her, How I missed my Clementine, But I kissed her little sister, I forgot my Clementine. Ruby lips above the water, Blowing bubbles, soft and fine, But, alas, I was no swimmer, So I lost my Clementine. ![]() Light she was and like a fairy, And her shoes were number nine, Herring boxes, without topses,Sandals were for Clementine.ĭrove she ducklings to the water, Ev'ry morning just at nine, Hit her foot against a splinter, Fell into the foaming brine. Oh my darling, oh my darling, Oh my darling, Clementine! Thou art lost and gone forever, Dreadful sorry, Clementine In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine, Dwelt a miner forty niner, And his daughter Clementine He loses her in a drowning accident – though he consoles himself towards the end of the song with Clementine's "little sister". 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). "Oh My Darling, Clementine" is an American western folk ballad. Identify your tune by clicking its first ten notes on ourįor feedback and questions, please contact Victor Gomersall. ![]()
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