Freddy Quinn — Oh My Darling Clementine lyrics

Lyrics

Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling, Clementine!
Thou art lost and gone forever.
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.
In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine
Dwelt a miner forty-niner,
And his daughter Clementine.
Walking lightly as a fairy,
Though her shoes were number nine,
Sometimes tripping, lightly skipping,
Lovely girl, my Clementine.
Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling, Clementine!
Thou art lost and gone forever.
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.
Drove she ducklings to the river
Ev’ry morning just at nine,
Hit her foot against a sliver,
Fell into the foaming brine.
Ruby lips above the water,
Blowing bubbles, soft and fine,
But, alas, I was no swimmer,
So I lost my Clementine.
Then the miner forty-niner,
He began to weep and pine,
Thought he oughtta join his daughter…
Now he’s with his Clementine.
In a churchyard on a hillside
Where the myrtle boughs entwine,
There grow rosies and some posies
Fertilized by Clementine.
How I missed her! How I missed her,
How I missed my Clementine!
So I kissed her little sister
And forgot my Clementine.
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’ll draw the line.