"Oh, My Darling Clementine" | |
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Song | |
Language | English |
Genre | Western, American folk |
Composer(s) | Traditional |
Lyricist(s) | Percy Montross; Barker Bradford |
"Oh, My Darling Clementine" (Roud 9611, sometimes simply "Clementine") is a traditional American, tragic but sometimes comic, Western folk ballad in trochaic meter usually credited to Percy Montross (or Montrose) (1884), although it is sometimes credited to Barker Bradford.
Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[1]