Trigger and Scythe album cover

Silver Thread Trio – Clementine Lyrics

Oh my darlin’ Clementine
You’re lost and gone forever

In a cavern, in a canyon
Digging a mine
Lived a miner forty niner
And his daughter Clementine

How I loved her when she told me
She would be mine
Told the miner forty niner
I’d take care of Clementine

She filled buckets at the river
Each day at nine
Hit her foot against a splinter
Fell into the foaming brine

Ruby lips above the water
Hands reaching for mine
Alas, I was no swimmer
So I lost my Clementine

In my dreams she still haunts me
Clothes soaked in brine
I’ll ne’er forgive the river
For he stole my Clementine

Oh my darlin’ Clementine
You’re lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorry, Clementine

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