Oh My Darling, Clementine
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Oh My Darling, Clementine es una canción popular americana usualmente atribuida a Percy Montrose aunque algunas veces se atribuye a Barker Bradford. Se cree que la canción está basada en otra canción anterior llamada Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden de H. S. Thompson.
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[editar] Historia
La canción cogió rápidamente fama entre grupos de scouts, siendo cantada en muchas acampadas y excursiones al bosque que organizan estos grupos.
[editar] Clementine en la cultura moderna
Oh My Darling, Clementine es la cancioncilla que siempre va cantando Huckleberry Hound. Debido a esto, la protagonista del filme Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind se llama Clementine.
La canción ha esdevenido un himno para algunos equipos de fútbol del Reino Unido y es cantada durante los encuentros.
[editar] Letra
- In a cavern, in a canyon,
- Excavating for a mine
- Dwelt a miner forty niner,
- And his daughter Clementine.
- Refrain:
- Oh my darling, oh my darling,
- Oh my darling, Clementine!
- You were lost and gone forever
- Dreadful sorry, Clementine.
- Light she was and like a fairy,
- And her shoes were number nine,
- Herring boxes, without topses,
- Sandals were for Clementine.
- Refrain
- Drove she ducklings to the water
- Ev'ry morning just at nine,
- Stubbed her toe against a splinter,
- Fell into the foaming brine.
- Refrain
- Ruby lips above the water,
- Blowing bubbles, soft and fine,
- But, alas, I was no swimmer,
- So I lost my Clementine.
- Refrain
- How I missed her! How I missed her,
- How I missed my Clementine,
- But I kissed her little sister,
- I forgot my Clementine.
- Refrain
- Then the miner, forty-niner,
- Soon began to peak and pine,
- Thought he oughter join his daughter,
- Now he's with his Clementine.
- Refrain
- In a corner of the churchyard,
- Where the myrtle boughs entwine,
- Grow the roses and the posies,
- Fertilized by Clementine.
- Refrain
- In my dreams she still doth haunt me,
- Robed in garments soaked in brine;
- How in life I used to hug her,
- Now she's dead, I draw the line.
