C C/B Am Am
C C/B Am Am

[Verse 1]
C        C/B                Am Am
Clementine, the sights you solve
C               C/B            Am Am
It's profligates, return this saw
   C                C/B                 Am
A native to the dance-halls of the Gaul
     Am                     C
Where dancing absolves us all
                     C/B        D
'cause they used to know my old Ma

[Chorus 1]

D     C
Oh, monkeyshines their bones will grind
      C/B                                D
In violent times with violet eyes that pale
 C
Monkeyshines their bones will grind
      C/B                                D
In violent times with violet eyes that pale

[Verse 2]
C                C/B                          Am Am
It's a trail of tears from here, to knows when
C               C/B               Am Am
She dripped with birch and unmade scent
C              C/B                       Am
Shod lean with ghosts of the lovers weak amends
Am                 C           C/B        D
So slays the mandarin in the house of a sun

[Chorus 2]
D     C
Oh, monkeyshines their bones will grind
       C/B                               D
And violent times with violet eyes that pale
  C
Monkeyshines their bones will grind
       C/B                               D
And violent times with violet eyes that pale
        C
As Cyanotypes, the trollops fight
    C/B                          D
To hold their scimitar above our heads
    D                               C
Oh down where they rest with my old Ma
                     C/B             D
'cause they used to know where we belong

D

[Verse 3]

C C/B                      Am Am
Dardanelle, skip Misselette
C                   C/B                   Am Am
When this faun's in love, it's nonetheless
   C            C/B                               Am
So peel back an orange if you wanna taste what's next
        Am                C             C/B               D
Since laudanum feathers a nest, with a salt mass hop and lament

[Chorus 3]
     C
Oh, monkeyshines their bones will grind
      C/B                                D
And violent times with violet eyes that pale
  C
Monkeyshines their bones will grind
     C/B                                 D
And violent times with violet eyes that pale
  C
Monkeyshines their bones will grind
      C/B                                 D
And violent times with violet eyes that pale
 C
Monkeyshines their bones will grind
      C/B                                D
And violent times with violet eyes that pale
D                                    C
Oh down where they rest with my old Ma
                     C/B            D
'cause they used to know where we belong