Clementine (Live)-Tom Lehrer

[ti:Clementine (Live)] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.48]I should like to consider the folk song [00:02.70]And expound briefly on a theory I have held [00:04.74]For some time to the effect that the reason [00:07.29]Most folk songs are so atrocious is that they [00:09.87]Were written by the people [00:10.87] [00:15.63]If professional songwriters had written them [00:17.66] [00:18.44]Instead things might have turned out considerably [00:19.61]Differently For example consider the old favorite [00:21.72]With which I'm sure you're all familiar [00:23.60]Clementine you know [00:24.99]In a cavern in a canyon [00:26.71]Dadada dadadada [00:28.15] [00:28.73]A song with no recognizable merit whatsoever [00:31.30] [00:32.73]And imagine what might have [00:34.22]Happened if for example [00:35.79]Cole Porter had tried writing this song The first [00:38.23]Verse might have come out like this [00:39.83] [00:47.98]In a cavern [00:49.00] [00:51.63]In a canyon [00:53.39] [00:54.99]Excava hay hay hehting for [00:57.73] [00:58.76]A mine [00:59.64] [01:00.51]Far away from the BOOM BOOM BOOM [01:02.74] [01:03.95]Of the city [01:04.71] [01:05.60]She was so pretty [01:06.86]What a pity Clementine [01:08.18] [01:11.12]Oh Clementine [01:12.37] [01:13.38]Can't you tell from the howls of me [01:17.95]This love of mine [01:20.00] [01:20.59]Calls to you from the bowels of me [01:24.95] [01:25.81]Are you dis CERning [01:28.79]The reTURning [01:29.21]Of this CHURning [01:30.19]BURning [01:30.69] [01:31.55]YEARning for you [01:35.95] [01:36.56]And [01:37.57]Well supposing at this point that Mozart [01:42.65] [01:45.42]Or one of that crowd had tried writing a verse [01:54.98]The next one might've come out as a baritone aria [01:56.87]From an Italian opera somewhat along these lines [01:59.58] [02:07.53]Era legera e come un fairy [02:09.92] [02:10.82]E suo shoes numero nine [02:13.57] [02:14.23]Herring bo ho ho hoxes [02:15.69]Sans a to ho ho hopses [02:17.29]Sandalae per Clementina si [02:19.59]Sandals for Clementine [02:20.73]Per Clementina si [02:21.80]For Clementine [02:22.31]Per Clementina sandalae [02:22.98] [02:23.61]Sandals for Clementine [02:24.96]Per Clementina sandalae [02:27.50]Sandals for Clementine [02:28.53]Per Clementina [02:29.28]For Clementine [02:31.64] [02:32.90]Herring boxes sans a topses [02:34.02]Sandalae per Clementina [02:34.71] [02:35.22]Herring boxes without topses [02:36.34]Sandals for Clementine [02:37.78]Che sciagura Clementina [02:38.79]Che sciagura Clementina [02:40.14]Cara Clementina [02:41.15]Cara Clementina na na na na na na na [02:43.65] [02:52.87]Supposing at this rather dramatic juncture in [02:54.74]The narrative one ofour modern [02:56.79]Cool school of composers [02:58.00] [02:58.53]Had tried writing a verse [02:59.53]Thenext one might've come out [03:00.66]A like this [03:02.11]A one A two A three [03:03.93] [03:09.92]Drove those ducklings to the water yprach [03:12.27]Doodilehdoodoot yah hah [03:13.36] [03:14.88]Every mornin' like nine a m awhoopah [03:17.14]Doodileh doo doo doodilidah [03:18.41] [03:19.50]Got a hung upon a splinter [03:20.98]Got a hung upon a splinter klooglimah [03:22.51] [03:23.19]Hoo hoot [03:24.25] [03:25.88]Fell into the foamy brine [03:27.24]Dig that crazy Clementine man [03:28.62] [03:41.60]To end on a happy note one can always count [03:44.78]On Gilbert and Sullivan for a [03:47.34]Rousig finale full of words [03:50.68]And music and signifying nothing [03:53.06] [04:08.11]That I missed her depressed her [04:09.27]Young sister named Esther [04:10.27]This mister to pester the tried [04:11.85]Now a pestering sister's a festering blister [04:13.38]You're best to resist her say I [04:15.10]The mister resisted [04:16.14]The sister persisted [04:16.81]When I kissed her all loyalty slipped [04:18.75]When she said I could have her [04:20.16]Her sister's cadaver [04:20.80]Must surely have turned in its crypt [04:22.39]Yes yes yes yes [04:25.27] [04:25.79]But I love she and she loves me [04:27.46]And raptured are the both of we [04:28.99]Yes I love she and she loves I [04:30.98] [04:31.90]And will through all eterni ty [04:35.99]See what I mean [04:37.02]Clementine (Live) - Tom Lehrer