Bobby Darin - Clementine
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Capo: 1
Tuning: E A D G B E
Title: Clementine
Artist: Bobby Darin, https://youtu.be/Vc9UKWzJmpU
Author and Copyright: MississippiHans (arr.+tab.)
Time: 4/4, Tempo: Q=150
The traditional version of "Clementine" is in 3/4 time. Bobby Darin made a more swinging, jazzy
version of it in 4/4 time, together with new lyrics.
Capo: 1, increment the capo by 2 frets after every 2 verses.
Play bass quarters consequently with your right-hand thumb and melody/harmony notes. Eignths are marked '+'.
Emphasize the melody notest. The chord names above the tab lines indicate the left-hand position.
[Verse]
C + +
E|---------------------|------------------------|-----------0----0----|-0----------------------|
B|-----------1----1----|-1----------------------|---------------------|----------1-------------|
G|---------------------|----------0-------------|---------------------|------------------------|
D|------2---------2----|------2------------2----|------2---------2----|------2------------2----|
A|-3-------------------|-3----------------------|-3-------------------|-3----------------------|
E|-----------3---------|--------------3---------|-----------3---------|--------------3---------|
+ G
E|----------------0----|-3--------3-------------|-----------1---p0----|---------------------|
B|-----------1---------|------------------------|---------------------|-3-------------------|
G|---------------------|------------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
D|------2---------2----|------2------------2----|------2---------2----|------0---------0----|
A|-3-------------------|-3----------------------|-3-------------------|-----------2---------|
E|-----------3---------|--------------3---------|-----------3---------|-3-------------------|
+ C +
E|----------------0----|-1--------1-------------|-----------3---p1----|-0----------------------|
B|-----------3---------|------------------------|---------------------|----------1-------------|
G|---------------------|------------------------|---------------------|------------------------|
D|------0---------0----|------0------------0----|------0---------0----|------2------------2----|
A|-----------2---------|--------------2---------|-----------2---------|-3----------------------|
E|-3-------------------|-3----------------------|-3-------------------|--------------3---------|
G + C
E|----------------0----|------------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
B|-----------1---------|-3----------------------|-----------0---h3----|-1-------------------|
G|---------------------|----------0-------------|---------------------|---------------------|
D|------2---------2----|------0------------0----|------0---------0----|------2---------2----|
A|-3-------------------|--------------2---------|-----------2---------|-3-------------------|
E|-----------3---------|-3----------------------|-3-------------------|-----------3---------|
[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 began 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, you know she went under
(Ho, ho) blowin' bubbles down the line.
Hey, I'm no swimm'a but were she slimm'a
I might'a saved that Clementine.
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, way out in your whaler
With your harpoon, your trusty line,
If she shows now, yo, there she blows now
It just may be chunky Clementine.
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.
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