Version 1 entered on 2002-09-19 by rt_from_lei
composer/group: | Elliot Smith | title: | Clementine | category: | Popular | lyrics or other text: | Rhythm unknown! Please edit this melody if you know it! You would need to update the Lilypond source code by adding note durations, rests and maybe bar lines. Durations are specified as numbers after the note name, e. g. c4 for a quarter note c below middle c. A whole rest would, for example, be written as r1. Please delete this text when you are done. Thanks for your help! | Parsons Code: | RRDURRDRUURDDDRUURDDUDRUDDUUD |
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| Version 2 updated on 2010-09-27 by rjr
lyrics or other text: | Clementine
In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine,
Dwelt a miner, forty-niner
And his daughter Clementine.
Oh my darling, oh my darling
Oh my darling, Clementine
You are lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.
Light she was and like a fairy,
And her shoes were number nine,
Herring boxes without topses
Sandals were for Clementine
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Drove she ducklings to the water
Every morning just at nine,
Hit her foot against a splinter
Fell into the foaming brine.
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Ruby lips above the water,
Blowing bubbles soft and fine,
But alas, I was no swimmer,
So I lost my Clementine.
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Then the miner, forty-niner
Soon began to peak and pine,
Thought he oughter jine he daughter,
Now he's with his Clementine.
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In my dreams she still doth haunt me,
Robed in garments soaked in brine;
Though in life I used to hug her,
Now she's dead, I draw the line.
| Version 3 updated on 2015-04-14 by lsfhorner
composer/group: | American western folk ballad | category: | Folk Music |
MIDI file removed. | sheet music deleted. |
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