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CLEMENTINE (FROM NEW ORLEANS)
Words by Henry Creamer; music by Harry Warren
New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., ©1927.
As sung by Kate Smith

My, look up the street, look up the street right now!
Hi, look at her feet. Isn't she neat? And how!
Oh, ain't she a darlin'? Oh, isn't she sweet,
That baby you're wild to meet?

Here comes Miss Clementine,
That baby from New Orleans.
She's only seventeen,
But what a queen,
Oh, my!
She has those flashing eyes,
The kind that can hypnotize,
And when she rolls 'em, pal,
Just kiss your gal
Goodbye.

And oh-oh-oh, when she starts dancing,
She plays a mean castanet.
You won't forget,
I mean.
Down in that Creole town,
Are wonderful gals around,
But none like Clementine
From New Orleans.

Now, you talk about Tabasco mamas,
Lulu Belles, and other charmers.
She's the baby that made the farmers
Raise a lot of cane.
She vamped a guy named Old Bill Bailey.
In the dark she kissed him gaily.
Then he threw down his ukulele
And he prayed for rain.

Look out for Clementine,
That baby from New Orleans.
She's only seventeen,
But what a queen!
Oh my!
She has two yearning lips.
Why, her kisses are burning pips.
They make the fellows shout,
And lay right out
And die.

Her dancing movements
Have improvements.
She shakes a mean tambourine
Out where the grass is green.

I've seen asbestos dames
Who set the whole town in flames,
But none like Clementine,
From New Orleans.

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"Clementine" is pronounced to rhyme (approximately) with "seventeen."

Several jazz bands have recorded this as an instrumental. The Goofus Five and The Varsity Eight include a vocal, but omit most of the lyrics shown above.

I have found catalog entries for 78-rpm recordings by the following artists, but since I haven't heard them, I can't say whether they are instrumentals or vocals: Jack Crawford and His Orchestra, Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra, University Six.