#443 - Oh My Darling Clementine

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• Composer:
  • Percy Montrose, 1884
  • adapted from Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden by H.S. Thompson

    • #296 - Cousin Jedediah
    • #443 - Oh My Darling Clementine
    • #1192 - Lilly Dale

    , 1863
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• Incipit: 1215343111355432
• Condensed Incipit: 1215343135432
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• Lyrics:
  In a cabin, in a canon,
  An excavating for a mine;
  Dwelt a miner, a forty-niner,
  And his daughter Clementine.
  
  chorus:
  Oh my darling, Oh my darling,
  Oh my darling Clementine,
  You are lost and gone forever,
  Drefful sorry, Clementine.
  
  She drove her ducklets, to the river
  Ev'ry morning just at nine;
  She stubb'd her toe, against a silver,
  And fell into the foaming brine.
  
  I saw her lips above the water,
  Blowing bubbles soft and fine;
  Alas for me, I was no swimmer,
  And so I lost my Clementine.
  
  
  • Percy Montrose, 1884