Clementine

In a cavern

Down by a canyon

Excavatin' for a mine

There lived a miner

From North Carolina

And... his daughter

Chubby Clementine.

Now, every mornin'

Yeah... just about dawnin'

When the sun

Began to shine

You know she would rouse up

Wake all-a-dem cows up

And... walk 'em down to her Daddy's mine.

I took the footbridge

Way 'cross the water

Though she weighed

Two ninety-nine

The old bridge trembled

And disassembled... oops!

Dumped her into the foamy brine.

Hey... crack like thunder... hut, hut...

You know she went under... hut, hut...

Blowin' bubbles down the line

Hey! I'm no swimm'a

But were she slimm'a

I might'a saved

That Clementine.

Ho... she broke the record

Way under water

I thought that she was doin' fine

I wasn't nervous

Not until the service

That they held

For Clementine.

Hey... you sailor... hut, hut...

Way out in your whaler

A-with your harpoon an' your trusty line

If she shows now, yell...

A-there she blows now!

It just may be

Chunky, Clementine

One more time!

Oh, my darlin', oh, my darlin'

Oh, my darlin', oh, my darlin'

Oh, my darlin', sweet Clementine

You may be gone...

But you're not forgotten

Fare thee well...

So long...

Clementine...

Bye!