In a cavern

Down by a canyon
Excavating

For a mine
There lived a miner

From North Carolina
And his daughter

Chubby Clementine

Now every morning

Hey, just about dawning
When the sun began to shine
You know she would rouse up

Wake all them cows up
And walk them down to her Daddy's mine

Took the foot bridge

Way across the water
Though she weighed two-ninety nine
The old bridge trembled

And disassembled
Dumped her into the foamy brine

Hey, crackle like thunder, oh, oh

You know she went under
Blowin bubbles down the line
Hey, I'm no swimmer but were she slimmer
I might have saved that Clementine

Broke the record

Way under water
I thought that she was doing fine
I wasn't nervous

Until the service
That they held for Clementine

Hey you sailor

Way out in your whaler
With a harpoon

Your trusty line
If she shows now,

Yeah, there she blows now
It just may be chunky Clementine

One more time