Westlife Lyrics

Album: Allow Us To Be Frank

Clementine Lyrics

In a cavern down by a canyon

 Excavatin' for a mine,

 There lived a miner from North Carolina

 And his daughter, chubby Clementine.

 

 Now every mornin', just about dawnin'

 A'when the sun begins to shine

 You know she would rouse up, wake all a dem cows up

 And walk 'em down to her Daddy's mine.

 

 A'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, (ho, ho) she went under

 (ho, ho) blowin bubbles (bubble sound) down the line.

 Hey, I'm no swimm'a but were she slimm'a

 I might'a saved that Clementine.

 

 (Ho) broke the record, way under water

 I thought that she was doin' fine.

 I wasn't nervous ya until the service

 That they held for Clementine.

 

 Hey you sailor (ho, ho) way out in your whaler

 With a harpoon, your trusty line.

 If she shows now, yo, there she blows now,

 It just may be chunky Clementine.

 

 (One more time)

 Oh my darlin', oh my darlin', oh my darlin'

 Oh my darlin', oh my darlin' sweet Clementine,

 You may be gone

 But!

 You're not forgotten,

 Fare thee well

 So long, Clementine

 (Bubble sound) Bye!