Clementine

Missing lyrics: water, fairy, forever, mine

In a cavern, in a canyon

Excavating for a mine

Lived a miner forty-niner

And his daughter, Clementine

Oh, my darling, oh, my darling

Oh, my darling Clementine

You are lost and gone _____________(a)

Dreadful sorry, Clementine

Light she was and like a _____________(b)

And her shoes were number nine

Herring boxes without topses

Sandals were for Clementine

Oh, my darling, oh, my darling

Oh, my darling Clementine

You are lost and gone _____________(a)

Dreadful sorry, Clementine

Drove her ducklings to the _____________(c)

Every morning just at nine

Hit her foot against a splinter

Fell into the foaming brine

Oh, my darling, oh, my darling

Oh, my darling Clementine

You are lost and gone _____________(a)

Dreadful sorry, Clementine

Now you scouts may learn the moral

Of this little tale of _____________(d)

Artificial respiration

Would have saved my Clementine

Oh, my darling, oh, my darling

Oh, my darling Clementine

You are lost and gone _____________(a)

Dreadful sorry, Clementine

To Do

How did Clementine die? 

She  _____________ (drowned)


Highlight to see answers:

(a) forever

(b) fairy

(c) water

(d) mine


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