Clementine

This version sourced from The Mangy Mongol songbook, page 88, AS XLIII.

Lyrics

In a cavern, in a canyon
In the shadow of a hill
It was there I kept a cathouse
With my oldest brother Bill.

Oh at first we didn't prosper
Then we started doing fine
When a gal came down from Jasper
By the name of Clementine

She was plain, she was scrawny,
And she had no gift of gab,
But she ahd the kind of quim, boys,
That would reach right out and garb.

Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling, Clementine
You are lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

So our days were full of laughter,
And our nights were filled with song,
Our safe was stuffed with money
Clemenetine was stuffed with dong.

Then this dude came down from Jasper,
And at last she'd met her match,
Cause he had a rifled member,
But she had a smooth bore snatch.

CHORUS

Brother Bill was the first to notice
So he shouted to her "tunr!"
But before this word was spoken
She was split fro stem to stern.

Every day down by the grave yard
When they toll the mission bell
We lay a wreath of roses
Round the quim we loved so well.

An amazon girl lived in Dumfries
Only had her kids in two's and three's,
She's go a sister in Maryhill,
Says she won't but I think she will!