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Posted August 25, 2015
I love this forum. XD
Posted August 25, 2015
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cogadh: It was a parody song written in the 1800's during the gold rush about the death of a miner's daughter. It sounds gruesome today, but at the time, the infant and child mortality rate was very high and making jokes about it like this was fairly common. It later became something of a children's song, which again sounds gruesome, but compare it to other "traditional" children's songs and stories like Ring Around the Rosie (supposedly about the Black Plague) or Grimm's fairy tales (featuring murder, maiming and cannibalism) and it is really rather tame.
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Lin545: Hehe, I used to love Grimm fairy tales when I was young. While true, that aspect was really good masked and gave somewhat good examples for youth about what is good and what is bad. Yes, they were very popular in Russia and ex-USSR.
You should read the Wizard of Oz series. Baum was trying to create children's books that weren't so bloody, but the first book had the story about how the tin man became the tin man and it's every bit as gruesome as the Grimm fairy tales.
Posted August 25, 2015
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Ghostbreed: Just look, or listen...
Creepy!
Posted August 25, 2015
What's wrong with it? Seems like a kid's song from the first few lines..............
Posted August 25, 2015
meh, I learned worse. There was one that went:

Well she dun' gone away
Kicked the bucket yesterday
My crossed-eyed gal
that lived upon the hill
Well, she took strychnine and died
and i hope she's satisfied
'cause she did the whole
darn thing against my will

Now that she has gone to rest
I'll fulfill her last request
and plant a bunch of onions on her grave
so that when i'm passing by
I can pucker up and cry
'Cause she did the whole darn thing against my will

Edit: I found a website that actually has someone singing this folk song. I learned it a bit different, but hey, it's folk music
Cross-eyed Gal

Edit 2: Oh! And all the Old Dan Tucker music too! lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Dan_Tucker
Post edited August 25, 2015 by Crewdroog
Posted August 25, 2015
1971? Sounds more like 1791.
Posted August 25, 2015
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Ghostbreed: The video clearly says, Family Sing Along (or something like that), there are children singing along with the guy.
So? It's not like this guy created the song.
Posted August 25, 2015
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jamotide: So? It's not like this guy created the song.
True.
Posted August 25, 2015
The end of the song is the real WTF.

"I miss clementine my daughter but when I hug her sister, I forget about her"

Now I know why people have more than one kid. If they loose one kid, they always have another one to rely on. They forget about the one they lost.
Posted August 25, 2015
Oh for pete's sake, it's a freaking folk song and it's a parody! it's supposed to be FUNNY

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

jesus.
Posted August 25, 2015
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Lin545: Interesting.... is somewhat related. <a href="http://www.gog.com/forum/general/wtf_is_this/post5" class="link_arrow"></a></div> I didn't know this particular video but it instantly reminded me of the animations by Alek Wasilewski aka Sarkazm. And sure enough, same guy. He happens to be making [url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/393190]a game right now, btw.

Anyway, concerning OT: that shit's messed up. A children's song about someone dying is one thing but that it's about her dad coping with it... holy shit.
Posted August 25, 2015
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sasuke12: The end of the song is the real WTF.

"I miss clementine my daughter but when I hug her sister, I forget about her"

Now I know why people have more than one kid. If they loose one kid, they always have another one to rely on. They forget about the one they lost.
That`s a thing I found in novels and movies too. People lost their child and then they behave like "Hey, we lost a child, but we are young and can have another one. So fuck the child we lost, let`s produce a new one, yeehaw!".
Post edited August 25, 2015 by Maxvorstadt
Posted August 25, 2015
THis is not about the loss of a child. it's about a guy that's dating a girl named Clementine, who is the daughter of a miner. She wears boxes for shoes. she was hearding geese, tripped on a splinter and fell in a pool and drowned. He misses her, but he's finding solace in her younger sister.

Comedy!
Post edited August 25, 2015 by Crewdroog
Posted August 25, 2015
There are quite a few disturbing children's singalong videos on YouTube, actually. If you don't mind nightmares, I recommend these two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svVSim1xils
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg
Post edited August 25, 2015 by thejimz
Posted August 25, 2015
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Crewdroog: THis is not about the loss of a child.
So you're saying a youtube video about just that wouldn't be factually accurate?
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