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Oh, My Darling Clementine

Traditional

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C	-	-	G7
-	C	G7	C
-	-	-	G7
-	C	G7	C        ( repeat)

6-beat intro. Play 3-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

This song is in 3/4 waltz time.

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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, I am sorry Clementine.

 

Light she was and like a fairy, and her shoes were number nine,
Herring boxes without topses, sandals were for Clementine.
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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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Listen to "Oh, My Darling Clementine" by an unnamed performer (mp3)

 

Watch Eddy Davis perform "Oh, My Darling Clementine" on the tenor banjo (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com