"Oh My Darling, Clementine" is a very popular American western folk ballad. usually credited to Percy Montross (1884), although it is sometimes credited to Barker Bradford. The song is believed to be based on another ballad called "Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden" by Henry S. Thompson (1863). Someone attributes the melody to an old Spanish folk ballad. It was made famous by Mexican miners during the gold rush. The melody is best known for Romance del Conde Olinos or Niño, a sad love story very famous in Spanish-speaking cultures. The song is also featured in John Ford's My Darling Clementine, starring Henry Fonda. It is actually a parody of a sad ballad. There are a lot of variations of the text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_My_Darling,_Clementine

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_My_Darling,_Clementine

Oh my darling, Clementine

Oh my darling, oh my darling

Oh my darling, Clementine

You were lost and gone forever

Dreadful sorrow, Clementine

In a cavern, in a canyon

Excavating for a mine

Dwelt a miner forty-niner

And his daughter, Clementine

Yes I loved her, how I loved her

Though her shoes were number nine

Herring boxes, without topses

Sandals were for Clementine

Oh my darling, oh my darling

Oh my darling, Clementine

You were lost and gone forever

Dreadful sorrow, Clementine

Drove the horses to the water

Every morning just at nine

Hit her foot against a splinter

Fell into the foaming brine

Ruby lips above the water

Blowing bubbles soft and fine

But alas, I was no swimmer

So I lost my Clementine

Oh my darling, oh my darling

Oh my darling, Clementine

You were lost and gone forever

Dreadful sorrow, Clementine

You are lost and gone forever

Dreadful sorrow, Clementine