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 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, huh, huh

You know she went under, huh, huh

Blowin' bubbles down the line

Hey, I'm no swimmer but were she slimmer

I might have 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

Of that they held for Clementine

Hey, you sailor, huh, huh way out in your whaler

With your harpoon in your trusty line

If she shows now, yell "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