A well known Western Folk Ballad, Clementine was written in the late 1800s..
The roots of the catchy melody go back to Spanish Ballads that Mexican miners were fond of during the California Gold Rush.
Here we present to you a tablature intended for Diatonically fretted One-String Canjos. While we only have the first verse here, the same melody is played out through the entirety of the song.
3 3 3 0 5 5 5 3 In a cavern, in a canyon, 3 5 8 8 6 5 4 Excavating for a mine 4 5 6 6 5 4 5 3 Dwelt a miner forty niner, 3 5 4 0 2 4 3 And his daughter Clementine