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Clementine by Bobby Darin - Guitar Chords

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            Clementine:Bobby Darin.
#8 in UK, #13 on CASH BOX and #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!)



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