MY DARLING CLEMENTINE

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Song Title
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
Writers
Cavanaugh, Stanton
Publisher
MELODY TRAILS, INC. (BMI)
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
WORLD
Themes/Keywords
Children, Children's Song, Darling, Death, U.S. History
Lyrics
In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine,
Dwelt a miner forty-niner,
And his daughter Clementine.

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Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling Clementine!
Thou art lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

Light she was and like a fairy,
And her shoes were number nine,
Herring boxes without topses,
Sandals were for Clementine.

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Drove she ducklings to the water,
Ev’ry morning just at nine,
Hit her foot against a splinter,
Fell into the foaming brine.

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Ruby lips above the water,
Blowing bubbles soft and fine,
But alas I was no swimmer,
So I lost my Clementine.

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Then the miner, forty-niner,
Soon began to peak and pine,
Thought he oughter jine his daughter,
Now he’s with his Clementine.

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In my dreams she still doth haunt me,
Robed in garments soaked in brine,
Though in life I used to hug her,
Now she’s dead I draw the line.

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