Oh My Darling, Clementine

by Traditional (credited to Percy Montrose, 1884)

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Key
C major
Tempo
♩ = 108
Time
3/4
Bars
9
Level
Easy · Difficulty 4 of 10
Genre
Folk songs
Origin
United States
Composer
Traditional

About this piece

A ballad published in 1884 as a parody of an older song. A miner's daughter drowns in the river; the waltz rhythm gives the story a swaying, mournful feeling.

Why it is free to use

A traditional tune with no known author, in print since about 1884. This encoding is our own; no published edition was copied.

About this score

This score of Oh My Darling, Clementine is a short excerpt (the opening, or the first verse of the song), not the whole piece. It was written by SampLab Pro from the public-domain music. It is not copied from any printed edition, MIDI file or recording. We place our score in the public domain (CC0 1.0): anyone may copy, change, share and use it, including commercially, without asking. The left hand is our own simple accompaniment, made from the chords of the tune.