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,
[Eb]
Chubby Clemen-tine.
#2.
[Eb] [Cm] [Eb] [Ebm]
Now, every mornin', yeah, just about dawnin', when the sun
[Ab] [Bb]
began to shine.
[Ab] [Eb] [Cm] [Eb]
You know she would rouse up, wake all-a-them cows up, and walk
[F] [Fm] [Bb] [Eb] [Cm]
'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
[B]
two ninety-nine.
[B] [Ab] [A] [Ab] [A] [E] [Dbm]
The old bridge trembled and disass-embled..Whoops!
[B] [Gbm] [Gb] [E] [C]
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
[C] [G] [F]
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
[Bb] [D]
and your trus-ty line.
[B] [G] [C] [Eb] [C] [G]
If she shows now, yell, a-there she blows now!
[A] [D] [A] [G]
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..
[Ab] [Db] [Ab] [B] [Fm] [Ab]
Clementine..(blurbbbbbbbbbbbbbb)..(Bye!)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
