《Clementine》歌词

[00:00:00] Clementine - Tom Lehrer

[00:00:00] I should like to consider the folk song

[00:00:02] And expound briefly on a theory I have held

[00:00:04] For some time to the effect that the reason

[00:00:07] Most folk songs are so atrocious is that they

[00:00:09] Were written by the people

[00:00:15] If professional songwriters had written them

[00:00:17] Instead things might have turned out considerably

[00:00:19] Differently For example consider the old favorite

[00:00:22] With which I'm sure you're all familiar

[00:00:23] Clementine you know

[00:00:25] In a cavern in a canyon

[00:00:26] Dadada dadadada

[00:00:29] A song with no recognizable merit whatsoever

[00:00:33] And imagine what might have happened if for example

[00:00:36] Cole Porter had tried writing this song

[00:00:38] The first verse might have come out like this

[00:00:48] In a cavern

[00:00:52] In a canyon

[00:00:55] Excava hay hay hehting for

[00:00:59] A mine

[00:01:01] Far away from the boom boom boom

[00:01:04] Of the city

[00:01:06] She was so pretty

[00:01:07] What a pity Clementine

[00:01:12] Oh Clementine

[00:01:14] Can't you tell from the howls of me

[00:01:18] This love of mine

[00:01:21] Calls to you from the bowels of me

[00:01:26] Are you dis cerning

[00:01:29] The returning

[00:01:30] Of this churning

[00:01:31] Burning

[00:01:32] Yearning for you

[00:01:38] And

[00:01:39] Well supposing at this point that Mozart

[00:01:46] Or one of that crowd had tried writing a verse

[00:01:56] The next one might've come out as a baritone aria

[00:01:58] From an Italian opera somewhat along these lines:

[00:02:09] Era legera e come un fairy

[00:02:12] E suo shoes numero nine

[00:02:16] Herring bo ho ho hoxes sans a to ho ho hopses

[00:02:19] Sandalae per Clementina si

[00:02:22] Per Clementina si

[00:02:23] For Clementine

[00:02:24] Per Clementina sandalae

[00:02:25] Sandals for Clementine

[00:02:26] Per Clementina sandalae

[00:02:26] Sandals for Clementine

[00:02:28] Clementina Clementina Cleh eh eh ehmentina

[00:02:35] Herring boxes sans a topses sandalae per Clementina

[00:02:37] Herring boxes without topses sandals for Clementine

[00:02:39] Che sciagura Clementina

[00:02:40] Che sciagura Clementina

[00:02:42] Cara Clementina

[00:02:43] Cara Clementina na na na na na na na

[00:02:46] Beloved Clementine

[00:02:55] Upposing at this rather dramatic juncture in

[00:02:57] The narrative one ofour modern cool school of composers

[00:03:01] Had tried writing a verse thenext one might've come out

[00:03:03] A like this

[00:03:12] Drove those ducklings to the water yprach

[00:03:14] Doodilehdoodoot yah hah

[00:03:17] Every mornin' like nine a m awhoopah

[00:03:19] Doodileh doo doo doodilidah

[00:03:22] Got a hung upon a splinter

[00:03:23] Got a hung upon a splinter klooglimah

[00:03:26] Hoo hoot

[00:03:28] Fell into the foamy brine

[00:03:30] Dig that crazy Clementine man

[00:03:44] To end on a happy note one can always count

[00:03:48] On Gilbert and Sullivan for a rousig finale full of words

[00:03:54] And music and signifying nothing

[00:04:11] That I missed her depressed her

[00:04:12] Young sister named Esther

[00:04:13] This mister to pester the tried

[00:04:15] Now a pestering sister's a festering blister

[00:04:17] You're best to resist her say I

[00:04:19] The mister resisted

[00:04:19] The sister persisted

[00:04:20] When I kissed her all loyalty slipped

[00:04:22] When she said I could have her

[00:04:24] Her sister's cadaver

[00:04:24] Must surely have turned in its crypt

[00:04:26] Yes yes yes yes

[00:04:29] But I love she and she loves me

[00:04:31] And raptured are the both of we

[00:04:32] Yes I love she and she loves I

[00:04:35] And will through all eterni tye

[00:04:39] See what I mean