{"id":7038,"date":"2016-05-02T22:40:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2016-05-03T21:58:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T07:58:28","slug":"leilanis-first-recital-oh-my-darling-clementine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=7038","title":{"rendered":"Leilani&#8217;s first recital: Oh my Darling Clementine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YseNUdEWpdQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Leilani watched it for the first time after almost a year and commented, for this song you should always have a slight cold, or find something to cry about shortly before (Sonja adds: So the audience gets how sad the text really is, as it&#8217;s usually sung like a happy song&#8230; Clementine drowns, and in a verse Leilani left out her dad commits suicide as he can&#8217;t get over the death of his child&#8230; but according to Wikipedia it is obvious that the song is in fact a tongue-in-cheek parody of a sad ballad.)<\/p>\n<p>In a cavern, in a canyon,<br \/>\nExcavating for a mine,<br \/>\nDwelt a miner, forty-niner,<br \/>\nAnd his daughter Clementine.<\/p>\n<p>Refrain:<br \/>\nOh my darling, oh my darling,<br \/>\nOh my darling Clementine<br \/>\nYou are lost and gone forever,<br \/>\nDreadful sorry, Clementine.<\/p>\n<p>2. Light she was, and like a fairy,<br \/>\nAnd her shoes were number nine,<br \/>\nHerring boxes without topses,<br \/>\nSandals were for Clementine.<\/p>\n<p>4. Drove she ducklings to the water<br \/>\nEv&#8217;ry morning just at nine,<br \/>\nHit her foot against a splinter,<br \/>\nFell into the foaming brine.<\/p>\n<p>5. Ruby lips above the water,<br \/>\nBlowing bubbles soft and fine,<br \/>\nBut alas, I was no swimmer,<br \/>\nNeither was my Clementine.<\/p>\n<p>11. How I missed her, how I missed her,<br \/>\nHow I missed my Clementine,<br \/>\nTil I kissed her little sister,<br \/>\nAnd forgot my Clementine<\/p>\n<p>She had started singing lessons just a month or so before the recital, and was asked to participate just 2 weeks before&#8230; and Clementine was one of the few long enough songs Leilani knew at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leilani watched it for the first time after almost a year and commented, for this song you should always have a slight cold, or find something to cry about shortly before (Sonja adds: So the audience gets how sad the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7045,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}