Oh my darling, oh my darling
Oh my darling, clementine
You were lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorrow, clementine

In a cavern, in a canyon
Excavating for a mine
Lived a miner forty-niner
And his daughter clementine

Yes I love her, how I love her
Thought her shoes were number nine
Herring boxes without topses
Sandals were for clementine

Oh my darling, oh my darling
Oh my darling, clementine
You were lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorrow, clementine

Drove the horses to the water
Every morning just at nine
Hit her foot against a splinter
Fell into the foaming brine

Ruby lips above the water
Blowing bubbles soft and fine
But at last, I was no swimmer
So I lost my clementine

Oh my darling, oh my darling
Oh my darling, clementine
You were lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorrow, clementine

You were lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorrow, clementine