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

Hey crackle like thunder ho ho) she went under

Hey I'm no swimm'a but were she slimm'a

I might'a saved that Clementine

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

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