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Pointed at by a friend. It's been years since I've heard this - probably I was 18 or so the last time I sang it. Turns out it's still at least partially in my head, along with the rhythm for banter in the midst.

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Verse: In a cavern, in a canyon,
excavating for a mine
dwelt a miner, forty-niner
and his daughter Clementine

Chorus: Oh my darling, oh my darling
oh my darling Clementine
Thou/You are/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

Chorus

Walking lightly as a fairy
Though her shoes were number nine
Sometimes tripping, lightly skipping
Lovely girl, my Clementine

Chorus

Drove she ducklings to the water
Every morning just at nine
Hit her foot against a splinter
Fell into the foaming brine

Chorus

Ruby lips above the water
Blowing bubbles soft and fine
But alas, I was no swimmer
Neither was my Clementine

Chorus

In a churchyard near the canyon
Where the myrtle doth entwine
There grow rosies and some posies
Fertilized by Clementine

Chorus

Then, the miner, forty-niner
Soon began to fret and pine
Thought he oughter join his daughter
So he's now with Clementine

Chorus

I'm so lonely, lost without her
Wish I'd had a fishing line
Which I might have cast about her
Might have saved my Clementine

Chorus

In my dreams she still doth haunt me
Robed in garments soaked with brine
Then she rises from the waters
And I kiss my Clementine

Chorus

Listen fellers, heed the warning
Of this tragic tale of mine
Artificial respiration
Could have saved my Clementine

How I missed her, how I missed her
How I missed my Clementine
Til I kissed her little sister
And forgot my Clementine

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from Tradition and Trade, released September 11, 2012
Written by Percy Montrose in 1884

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