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Clementine: Pete Seeger

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  2. Christer's avatar Christer Says:

    July 8, 2010 at 12:55 pm

    Campfire music is much the same over here. This song is a bit different in swedish, but poor Clementine meets much the same end I´m afraid 🙂 🙂

  3. sblake's avatar sblake Says:

    July 8, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    I am always amazed that Pete is now 91 years old and still going strong..

    Oh My Darling, Clementine is an American western folk ballad usually credited to Percy Montrose (1884), even though it’s sometimes credited to Barker Bradford. The song is believed to have been based on another song called Down by the River Liv’d a Maiden by H. S. Thompson (1863).

    Gerald Brenan attributes the melody to originally being an old Spanish ballad in his book South from Granada. It was made popular by Mexican miners during the Gold Rush. It was also given various English texts. No particular source is cited to verify that the song he used to hear in the 1920s in a remote Spanish village was not an old text with new music, but Brenan states in his preface that all facts mentioned in the book have been checked reasonably well.

    It is also believed to have originally been a Spanish
    children’s song in the Gold Rush days. Miners were so fed up with the Spanish kids singing it that they parodied the work and it turned out as My Darling Clementine

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      July 8, 2010 at 10:14 pm

      sblake,
      Like you, I am totally amazed. The man is ageless.

      I knew absolutely nothing about this song despite my having learned it when I was very young. Now I think they should be teaching the history of the song as well. It adds so much to it.

  4. J.M. Heinrichs's avatar J.M. Heinrichs Says:

    July 9, 2010 at 1:12 am

    Navel oranges are tastier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine

    Cheers

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      July 9, 2010 at 10:11 am

      Minicapt,
      I really like clementines and usually buy a crate when they appear in the grocery store, easy to peel and eat on the run.


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