Clementine chords by Bobby Darin

Clementine:Bobby Darin.
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.