Oh My Darling, Clementine

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"Oh My Darling, Clementine" is a traditional American folk ballad, often sung as a children's song, about a miner's daughter who tragically drowns.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American folk song
Western folk song
children's song
traditional ballad
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre Western
ballad
folk
hasAlternativeLyrics Yes
hasCharacterRole miner is Clementine's father
hasChorus Yes
hasCulturalImpact widely recognized American folk standard
hasEducationalUse teaching melody and pitch to children
teaching rhythm and meter to children
hasForm strophic
hasMeter 3/4 time
hasMood melancholic
nostalgic
hasParodyVersions Yes
hasRecordingType instrumental
vocal
hasRefrain "Oh my darling, Clementine" NERFINISHED
hasRhymeScheme simple end-rhyme pattern
hasTitleCharacter Clementine NERFINISHED
isFrequentlyAdaptedAs cartoon musical segment
film and TV background music
isIncludedIn American folk song anthologies
isPartOf American oral tradition
isPublicDomain Yes
isTaughtIn American elementary schools
language English
mainCharacter Clementine NERFINISHED
miner
narrativeTheme death by drowning
loss
tragic love
plotEvent Clementine drowns
narrator laments Clementine's death
setting American Old West NERFINISHED
mining camp
subjectOf American folk music tradition
timePeriodDepicted 19th-century American frontier
typicalUse campfire song
children's sing-along
educational music for children

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My Darling Clementine hasTitleSong Oh My Darling, Clementine
Huckleberry Hound notableSong Oh My Darling, Clementine
Clementine mission namedAfter Oh My Darling, Clementine
this entity surface form: folk song "Oh My Darling, Clementine"