Clementine:Bobby Darin.
#8 in UK, #13 on CASH BOX and #21 on
BB Hot 100 on ATCO Records in 1960.
INTRO: Eb Cm Ab Cm Ab Dm
#1.
Eb Cm Gm Cm Bb Cm Bb
In a cavern, down by a canyon, ex-cav-at-in' for a mine.
Db Ab Eb C Bb
There lived a miner from North Caro-lina, and his daughter,
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Chubby Clemen-tine.
#2.
Eb Cm Eb Ebm
Now, every mornin', yeah, just about dawnin', when the sun
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began to shine.
Ab Eb Cm Eb
You know she would rouse up, wake all-a-them cows up, and walk
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'em do-wn to her Daddy's mine.
#3.
B E Em E Dbm E
I took the footbridge, way 'cross the water, though she weighed
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two ninety-nine.
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The old bridge trembled and disass-embled..Whoops!
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Dumped her innnnn to the foamy brine.
#4.
Gb F Cm Dm Fm Dm
Hey..crack like thunder..hut, hut..you know she went under..hut, hut..
Fm Cm F Db Ab Bb Ab Bb
blowin' bubbles (blubbbb) down the line.
C Bb Gm7 Bb Db Ab A Dm Ab Bb Ab
Hey, I'm no swimmer....but were she slimm-er...I might'a sav-ed
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that Clementine.
#5.
Db A Gb Db A Gb Ebm Gb
Ho! she broke the record, way under water, I thought that she was
A Db
doin' fine.
Ab B Ab B Db Gb A Ab Db Gb
I wasn't nervous.......until the service, that they held for Clementine.
#6.
D G Bb G
Hey, you sailor..hut, hut..way out in your whaler, a-with your harpoon
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and your trus-ty line.
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If she shows now, yell, a-there she blows now!
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It just may be, chunky, Clementine..(One more time!)
OUTRO:
Ab Cm Abm7 Ab
Oh, my darlin'..(oh, my darlin')..oh, my darl-in'..(oh, my darlin')
Abm7 Eb
Oh, my darlin'..sweet Clementine.
Db Ab Abm7 Ab Bbm Db Eb
You may be gone but you're not forgotten..fare thee well..so long..
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Clementine..(blurbbbbbbbbbbbbbb)..(Bye!)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
