Clementine (Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show 2/28/60)

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 began 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) you know she went under

(Ho, ho) blowin' bubbles 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 your 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

Bye