The old song called "Oh My Darling Clementine" has been a popular song since at least the 1840's.

The tune of the song was used a few years back in a popular techno version of a world cup football music instrumental using Scottish bagpipes.

Is it possible the song originates from Bonnie Prince Charlie's Mother who was called Maria Clementine Sobieska?

She was a very beautiful Polish princess who married the last of the Scottish Stuart Kings (The Old Pretender) and had two sons before she died at the tender age of 32 in 1735. If the Jacobite rebellions had been successful she would have been Queen of England. The palace where she grew up in Olawa, Poland still stands and is used by the local council.

Being one of Europe's wealthiest heiresses, she was betrothed to James Francis Edward Stuart. King George I of Great Britain was opposed to the marriage because he feared that the union might produce heirs to James Francis Edward's claim to his thrones. To placate him, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI arrested Maria Clementina while on her way to Italy to marry James Francis Edward. She was confined in Innsbruck Castle but eventually the guards were deceived and, with the help of Charles Wogan, Maria Clementina escaped to Bologna, Italy, where, for safety from further intrusions, she was married by proxy to James, who was in Spain at that time.

As the Jacobite period spawned many famous and long lasting folk songs such as Loch Lomond, Over the Sea to Sky and Killiecrankie, it seems possible that a song was written about the beautiful Clementine but possibly suppressed by Hanoverian propoganda until it resurfaced years later in America?