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ON MY DARLING CLEMENTINE.

Words and Music by Percy Montrose

1. In a cavern, in a canyon, / Excavating for a

2. Light she was and like a fairy, / And her shoes were number

3. Drove she ducklings to the water / Ev'ry morning just at

4. Ruby lips above the water, / Blowing bubbles, soft and

5. In a corner of the churchyard, / Where the myrtle boughs en

6. Then the miner, forty-niner, / Soon began to peak and

7. In my dreams she still doth haunt me, / Robed in garments soaked in

mine / Dwelt a miner forty niner, / And his daughter Clementine.

nine, / Herring boxes, without topses, / Sandals were for Clementine.

nine, / Stubbed her toe against a splinter, / Fell into the foaming brine.

fine, / But, alas, I was no swimmer, / So I lost my Clementine.

twine, / Grow the roses and the posies, / Fertilized by Clementine.

pine, / Thought he oughter join his daughter, / Now he's with his Clementine.

brine; / How in life I used to hug her, Now she's dead, and I draw the line.

Chorus.

Oh my darling, Oh my darling, Oh my darling, Clementine, You are

Cle-men-tine, Cle-men-tine, Clemen-Cle-men-time.

Cle-men-tine, Oh Cle-men-tine, Oh Clemen-Cle-men-time.

Cle-men-tine, Oh Cle-men-tine, Oh Clemen-Cle-men-time.