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Clementine Lyrics

Artist: Bobby Darin

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', just about dawnin'
A'when the sun begins to shine
You know she would rouse up, wake all a dem cows up
And walk 'em down to her Daddy's mine.

A'took the foot bridge, way 'cross the water
Though she weighed two-ninety nine.
The old bridge trembled and disassembled
(Oops!) dumped her into the foamy brine.

Hey, crackle like thunder, (ho, ho) she went under
(ho, ho) blowin bubbles (bubble sound) down the line.
Hey, I'm no swimm'a but were she slimm'a
I might'a saved that Clementine.

(Ho) broke the record, way under water
I thought that she was doin' fine.
I wasn't nervous ya until the service
That they held for Clementine.

Hey you sailor (ho, ho) way out in your whaler
With a harpoon, your trusty line.
If she shows now, yo, 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
(Bubble sound) Bye!

Comments/Interpretations

by RON on 8/21/2010 11:06pm
REALLY CRAPPY LYRICS FROM BOBBY DARIN. HE WAS TRYING TO BE CUTE AND FAILED. CLEMENTINE IS A TRADITIONAL FOLK SONG FROM THE LATE 1880'S WHICH HAS MANY ALTERNATE LYRICS ALREADY.

DARIN SHOULD HAVE TRIED TO SING A FOLK SONG INSTEAD OF BEING A JERK.

by Jack from Aberdeen 25thJune2010 on 6/25/2012 6:16am
One of the best of Bobby's hits
I disagree with Ron its a great
jolly production of a traditional
folk song.Waken up Ron.