Clementine chords by Bobby Darin

Chords with lyrics

Clementine:Bobby Darin.
21 on
BB Hot 100 on ATCO Records in 1960.


INTRO: Eb MajorEb C minorCm AbAb C minorCm AbAb DmDm

#1.
   Eb MajorEb        C minorCm   G minorGm C minorCm Bb majorBb C minorCm Bb majorBb
In a cavern, down by a canyon, ex-cav-at-in' for a mine.
DbDb      AbAb          Eb MajorEb  C majorC    Bb majorBb
There lived a miner from North Caro-lina, and his daughter,
       Eb MajorEb
Chubby Clemen-tine.

#2.
Eb MajorEb                  C minorCm    Eb MajorEb    EbmEbm
Now, every mornin', yeah, just about dawnin', when the sun
     AbAb  Bb majorBb
began to shine.
          AbAb            Eb MajorEb    C minorCm Eb MajorEb
You know she would rouse up, wake all-a-them cows up, and walk
  FF F minorFm Bb majorBb       Eb MajorEb  C minorCm
'em do-wn to her Daddy's mine.

#3.
 BB    E MajorE        E minorEm    E MajorE   DbmDbm    E MajorE
I took the footbridge, way 'cross the water, though she weighed
      BB
two ninety-nine.
BB  AbAb     A augmentedA    AbAb A augmentedA   E MajorE    DbmDbm
The old bridge trembled and disass-embled..Whoops!
      BB  GbmGbm GbGb      E MajorE   C majorC
Dumped her innnnn to the foamy brine.

#4.
GbGb  FF                   C minorCm    DmDm   F minorFm  DmDm
Hey..crack like thunder..hut, hut..you know she went under..hut, hut..
F minorFm        C minorCm FF  DbDb    AbAb Bb majorBb AbAb Bb majorBb
blowin' bubbles (blubbbb) down the line.
   C majorC   Bb majorBb   Gm7Gm7 Bb majorBb DbDb  AbAb A augmentedA   DmDm  AbAb    Bb majorBb AbAb
Hey, I'm no swimmer....but were she slimm-er...I might'a sav-ed
C majorC  G+G   FF
that Clementine.

#5.
DbDb   A augmentedA     GbGb   DbDb A augmentedA   GbGb    EbmEbm     GbGb
Ho! she broke the record, way under water, I thought that she was
A augmentedA   DbDb
doin' fine.
AbAb    BB    AbAb BB  DbDb   GbGb    A augmentedA     AbAb    DbDb  GbGb
I wasn't nervous.......until the service, that they held for Clementine.

#6.
D MajorD    G+G                      Bb majorBb    G+G
Hey, you sailor..hut, hut..way out in your whaler, a-with your harpoon
       Bb majorBb D MajorD
and your trus-ty line.
BB   G+G   C majorC      Eb MajorEb  C majorC     G+G
If she shows now, yell, a-there she blows now!
A augmentedA      D MajorD  A augmentedA       G+G
It just may be, chunky, Clementine..(One more time!)

OUTRO:
    AbAb             C minorCm   Abm7Abm7 AbAb
Oh, my darlin'..(oh, my darlin')..oh, my darl-in'..(oh, my darlin')
           Abm7Abm7 Eb MajorEb
Oh, my darlin'..sweet Clementine.
      DbDb       AbAb Abm7Abm7 AbAb       BbmBbm  DbDb Eb MajorEb
You may be gone but you're not forgotten..fare thee well..so long..
   AbAb   DbDb  AbAb  BB  F minorFm   AbAb
Clementine..(blurbbbbbbbbbbbbbb)..(Bye!)


A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.