In a cavern, down by a canyon

Excavation' for a mine

A-there lived a miner from North Carolina

And his daughter chubby Clementine

And every morning, hey, just about dawning

A-when the sun began to shine

You know she would rouse up, wake all a-them cows up

And walk 'em down to her daddy's mine

She took the foot bridge way 'cross the water

Though she weighed two-ninety-nine

The old bridge trembled and disassembled

Oops, dumped her into the foamy brine

Hey, crackle like thunder, you know she went under

Blowing bubbles down the line

Hey, I'm no swimmer but were she slimmer

I might've saved that Clementine

Hey, broke the record way under water

I thought that she was doing fine

I wasn't nervous until the service

That they held for Clementine

Hey, you sailor, way out in your whaler

With a harpoon, your trusty line

If she shows now, yeah, there she blows now

It just may be chunky Clementine

One more time

Oh my darling, oh my darling

Oh my darling, oh my darling

Oh my darling sweet Clementine

You may be gone but you're not forgotten

Fare thee well, so long Clementine, bye