Tall Tales & Legends (1985–1988): Season 1, Episode 4 - My Darlin' Clementine - full transcript
[orchestral music]
♪ In a tent camp in a canyon
♪ Excavating for a mine
♪ Dwelt a miner
Forty-niner ♪
♪ And his daughter
Clementine ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Oh my darling ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Clementine ♪
♪ You are lost and
Gone forever ♪
♪ Dreadful sorry
♪ Clementine
- My Darling Clementine.
We all learned this song as kids
and have never forgotten it.
But though generations
have sung this tune
keeping alive the spirit
of the California gold rush,
no one ever really knew
who this Clementine was.
Well, in tonight's Tall Tale,
you'll get to meet her.
And you'll discover why we think
her story inspired this
legendary American folk song.
And the next time you sing it,
you'll understand why
they call this special lady
"darling Clementine".
[man singing]
♪ Dreadful sorry
♪ Clementine
♪ Oh, my darling
[woman humming at a distance]
- Clementine.
[woman, echoing]: Levi!
[humming]
- Clementine!
- Levi.
[humming]
- Clementine!
Clementine!
[humming]
Clementine! Clementine!
Clementine!
Clementine!
Clem...
Clementine?
Oh...
Clementine.
What am I doing?
[grunting]
[rhythmic music]
[dramatic music]
I saw her!
[rattling]
I saw Clementine!
Down by the lake!
I did, I swear!
She was singing,
dancing on the lake.
Sir, I saw your daughter.
- Son, we're all missing her,
and I know how tough it is.
We're all grieving for her loss?
- Come over here and sit down.
I'll get a little something
for your nerves.
- I saw her.
Just as sure as I'm sitting
here.
She was just as real as...
[breathing heavily]
...as she ever was.
- Here.
[narrator]: Oh, he saw her,
alright.
He saw that golden ghost
dancing on the lake.
There was something about
that girl none of them could
ever forget.
Something about her that
changed their lives.
And so, this is the story of
how Clementine became a legend,
and of how her legend
became a song.
It all happened
back in the gold rush of 1849.
That's when gold was discovered
in California.
Rumors were rampant.
People were saying gold was
everywhere,
that the streams were
so thick with gold,
there was hardly
any room for the water.
Something happened to ordinary
men when they heard these
golden tales.
Leaving their jobs
and families,
they'd drop everything
and head west,
no matter if they were
in the middle of a shave or
getting married.
Grooms left their brides
and preachers left the cloth.
Gold was in their eyes,
and greed in their hearts.
[rhythmic music]
One little nugget could cause
a whole lot of trouble.
[indistinct yelling]
But it was hard to blame them
when the mountain sparkled
with gold nuggets the size
of watermelons.
- Look at that!
- Gold!
[narrator]: Like old hound dogs
chasing a rabbit,
the smell of gold made
men run faster
and farther than they
ever thought they could.
But like most hound dogs
discover,
the rabbit usually gets away.
Most never found gold.
Others never gave up.
Like Lucky Jake.
He added "lucky" to his name
because he was sure that one da
his luck would change,
and he'd strike more gold
than he knew what to do with.
But that day never came.
What Jake didn't know is,
the real reason he was lucky,
was because of his daughter
Clementine.
She was worth more than
all the gold in all the hills
of California.
Clementine was special.
She had her own way
of doing things.
Now heaven only knows
why Jake had the fortune to be
the father of the only woman
in the mining camp.
You see, miners were
superstitious
and thought a woman would
bring them bad luck.
[breathing heavily]
- Oh...
[laughing]
[narrator]: Truth is,
those smelly old miners
didn't appreciate
all that Clementine
gave them.
[laughing]
That is except for one miner.
- Get them bloomers!
[sighing]
[narrator]: One day, romance
came into bloom
all on account
of them bloomers.
[mysterious music]
- How dare you?
What's a gentleman like you
doing with a woman's personals
in his hands?
- Oh, I'm sorry, Miss
Clementine.
I didn't mean no disrespect.
- You're new around here,
ain't you?
- I arrived yesterday.
- How did you know my name then?
- Well...
It's just kind of hard
not to notice the only lady
in a mining camp.
- I'll be seeing you.
- Here, let me help you out.
- Why, thank you.
- My pleasure.
Bye.
- Bye.
[narrator]: Now, some folks
say there's no such thing
as love at first sight.
But I ain't one of them.
[bell ringing]
[man]: Come and get it!
[indistinct conversation]
- And they were the size
of half dollars.
- Half dollars?
- Yeah.
- I was down by the river
and found you some more
mulberries for your brew.
- Sure was a good idea putting
in them mulberries.
Boys just love it.
- I heard about a chap
out the river named Silvester.
Now, one night,
just after midnight,
he woke up hearing this soft
knocking.
It was Tommy Knocker himself.
- Tommy Knocker?
- Mm-hmm.
Silvester followed the sound
of that knocking and he struck
it right then.
- I heard that Silvester's
coming down here.
- Silvester sounds like
an interesting fellow.
- Daddy, have you met Levi?
- Silvester is just lucky.
Everywhere he go, he strikes it.
- Silvester sounds more
and more interesting every
time.
- These are excellent beans,
Miss Clementine.
- Why, thank you.
They're the same ones I make
every night.
- Tonight,
they're exceptionally good.
- Thank you, again.
- These beans are just the way
we make them back home.
- How?
- Burnt.
[laughing]
- You're always talking about
back home. You must miss it.
[laughing]
- That'll teach you.
- Yeah.
[mysterious music]
- These herring boxes
are only temporary.
I ordered myself a pair of real
pretty red high-top shoes
through the mail-order
catalogue.
- Gold!
- What?
- She's got gold on her feet.
- The mulberry patch.
[indistinct yelling]
- I'll be back later.
- It's alright. I got it.
- What were you saying,
Miss Clementine?
- Well, I ordered them
two years ago,
but we don't seem to stay
in town long enough for them
to reach us.
- It's a big problem.
I know exactly what you mean.
Can I have some more of your
beans, Miss Clementine?
- Sure.
- One time, I ordered some
scissors, some needles...
Took them almost six months
to find me.
- I just keep imagining my shoes
lost between no place, really,
and whatchamacallit, the town
we were in last.
- Mm-hmm.
- These poor little red shoes,
just sitting out there getting
dusty.
Just waiting for someone
to send them on.
- Hmm.
You know, these are the best
beans I've ever hard,
Miss Clementine.
- Why, thank you.
It is my special recipe.
I call them "strike it rich"
beans.
Because one time after I served
them, three miners struck it
rich.
And ever since then, Daddy's
been eating beans every day.
- Every day?
- Every day.
And he insists I fix them just
the way I did then.
Daddy's kind of...
Well, you know how miners are.
Superstitious.
- Mm-hmm.
- One time, after finding a gold
nugget about the size of a bean,
Daddy wouldn't take his socks
off.
Wouldn't even let me wash them.
[chuckling]
Oh, my! You are a good eater.
- Oh, they're so good.
- Well, anyway,
Daddy just kept on wearing them
until they finally just
dissolved right there
on his feet.
Nothing left but a bunch
of threads.
- You sure take good care
of your daddy.
- I'm all he's got.
- He's a lucky man.
[soft music]
[mysterious music]
Would you... excuse me?
[narrator]: Four helpings
of beans!
Now it's plain to see that
Clementine and Levi are becomin
an explosive couple.
But Lucky Jake has his own
plans for his only daughter.
- Clementine, darling, I think
it's time we had us a talk.
- Yes, Daddy.
- I've been giving a lot
of thought
and I think it's time
we got you married off.
- Oh, Daddy, don't start
that again.
- Clementine, you're getting
older.
Men like to take younger girls
for wives.
[sighing]
- You remember last time
when we were living
a the last mining camp
on the road number 7?
And you invited that man named
Henry for dinner?
And he couldn't keep
his head up
and he fell right in his plate
of beans?
- Well, he was tired.
He struck it big that day.
- He was old, Daddy.
Died, right there at supper!
- I always knew we should've
asked him for lunch.
- Daddy...
- What would make me most happy,
in my later years, darling
Clementine,
is knowing that was well
cared for.
What is most important
in getting you a husband,
is finding a man of sufficient
means,
preferably one who has struck
it, and struck it rich.
Someone like that fellow
Silvester we was talking about
at dinner.
[narrator]: The next day,
Clementine obliged to daddy
and went to meet Silvester.
Hard to believe Lucky Jake
would want his grandchildren
to look like him,
he wasn't just ugly,
he was downright ugly.
But Clem always tried to look
for the good in people.
- Mr. Silvester!
Mr. Silvester!
Lucky Jake!
How are you?
This here is my young daughter
Clementine.
As you can see, she's a
fine-looking young woman,
with fine, strong bones,
come from good stock.
And she's got herself a mighty
fine personality.
Say hello to Mr. Silvester,
Clementine.
- Hello.
Nice meeting you.
- Yeah.
[chuckling]
She's very talented.
She's an excellent housekeeper.
She can mend and sow anything!
She's a good cook.
She can cook just about
anything.
Her apple pie is probably not
just the greatest,
it's probably the best west
of the Rockies.
Probably the best in
the country.
Probably in the whole universe.
But she herself don't eat very
much.
[narrator]: Well, she tried,
but there was a no good
in Silvester.
[Jake continues talking.]
He wasn't only ugly,
he was mean.
And he was greedy.
- Oh!
[narrator]: Even greedier
than Lucky Jake.
Clementine left those two
splashing over a nugget.
And sloshed downstream to
someone who appreciated her
for more than just her assorted
fruit pies.
[humming]
- Hi, Miss Clementine.
- Hi.
- That was a very pretty tune
you were just humming.
Is that anything I might know?
- No. I made it up.
Been humming it since
I was a kid.
- Really?
- How's it going, today?
- Oh, fine, fine.
- Any luck?
- Oh, no, no.
There's nothing in this stream.
- Been mining long?
- Well, about six months.
- Levi, I...
- See, I was on my way to San
Francisco to open a tailor shop.
And everybody told me
I was crazy.
And I had to come up here
and make my fortune.
- A tailor shop.
What an interesting line
of work.
- It's been a dream of mine ever
since I was just a little boy.
You know, it's real fascinating
to watch somebody make two
pieces of material into one.
Just by using...
a tiny little piece of thread.
- I never thought of it that
way.
But you're absolutely right.
- Didn't I tell you
Mr. Silvester was a nice man,
huh?
- Yes. Quite charming, Daddy.
- Yeah. You see?
- Hi.
- Hello.
[eerie music]
Levi!
You idiot!
That was gold!
- Really, where?
- Out of my way!
[indistinct mumbling]
Whoever told you've got
hand for gold?
I've never seen such a big idiot
in all my life.
[Levi]: Jake, is that what gold
looks like?
[Jake]: Oh, you wouldn't know
gold if it stood up, shook your
hand and...
She not only knows how to make
a good apple pie,
she could make
a gooseberry pie,
and a great mulberry pie...
[narrator]: Lucky Jake could
keep right on selling,
it didn't matter.
Clementine's heart already
belonged to Levi.
[Jake]: Come here, let me help
you with that.
[soft music]
[indistinct chatter]
- Oh, I see you finally got your
paper, Mr. Yorkshire.
They really got here fast.
It took less than three months.
- There's no paper like
the London Times.
- Well, it must be nice when
it's all in once piece.
[chuckling]
[Sum Luk]: And the nuggets
were the size of a quarter.
And the bin must've been
ten feet long!
His donkey was so loaded
when he left camp, he could
barely walk.
- They were as big as my fist.
- He had solid gold nuggets
the size of grapefruits.
His whole claim was solid
with them.
- Any mending needs to be done
today, Mr. Ripple?
- Oh, got lots, Clementine.
- I mended half those pants
last week.
- Boys are tough on them.
- I need another round of your
brew over here, Ripple.
- How's it going today,
Sneaky Pete?
- Well, I've been kind of
cooped up in here.
- Well, how come you're not out
there mining?
- I think my luck has run off,
Clementine.
- Why don't you just go back to
that ranch of yours in Oklahoma?
- It's got all this black stuff
coming up out of the ground.
- Can't you do anything with it?
- Useless!
It's still sticky.
Once you've got it on you,
you can't get it off.
[eerie music]
[laughing]
[eerie music]
[rattling]
[clattering]
- Who's the girl?
- Cle... Clementine.
[laughing]
- Give me the biggest pitcher
of brew you've got.
And make it fast!
[laughing]
[gasping]
[sighing in relief]
Do it again.
[laughing]
[groaning]
[mysterious music]
Ah!
[gasping]
- I was just returning this to
you. It seems... you dropped it.
[cracking]
[laughing]
[narrator]: Clementine had no
idea what was so funny.
This Mountain Man was just a
big bully.
Rude, and mean, and hairy.
She couldn't determine whether
that fur was something
he was wearing
or something he was
growing.
And he smelled worse than
a bear on a hot summer's day.
This was not the company or
the air quality this Clementine
preferred.
[birds chirping in the distance]
- You prefer the cross-stitch?
- Most of the time.
I think it looks best.
Don't you?
- Oh, it looks fine.
It's not very strong.
- Yeah, I know.
I'Ve resowed these more times.
What is it about miners
that they're always ripping
their pants?
- Oh, that's because this fabric
isn't made for a working man.
See, these pants...
These pants are made for
somebody sitting behind a desk,
or for going to church.
See, a working man's pants
ought to be made out of
something strong,
you know, endurable. Like
the stuff tents are made out of.
And they ought to be held
together with metal rivets.
Not just thread.
- Metal rivets?
You've given this a lot
of thought, haven't you?
- Ever since I was a kid when
I used to scratch my knees
and the patches my mom used
to saw on my pants,
I've always thought that pants
ought to be made out of some...
stronger material.
- I never thought of it.
And you're absolutely right.
[soft music]
- You really think so?
- I think it's
the smartest thing
I've ever heard in my life.
- I've never told anybody
this before,
but one time,
I even cut up a tent
to sew together a pair of pants.
- You did?
- Yeah.
- Did you wear them?
- Oh yeah.
- And?
- They're a little rough.
[laughing]
They caused, uh...
They caused... a little chafing.
- Sometimes, it just gets
so hot wearing these bonnets.
They keep the sun
from giving you a red neck
or a burnt nose.
- And they're fashionable.
- But not practical.
Just like long hair.
I know men like it
and everything, but...
When you're working outdoors...
- I like your hair.
I think your hair
is different.
Unique.
I think it'd cause a whole new
rush to the barber shop.
Who cut it for you?
- I did.
- All by yourself?
- Well, wasn't gonna let
my daddy do it.
[laughs]
- I think it's very pretty.
- You do?
- You're very pretty,
Clementine.
You know, long hair,
short hair,
it just doesn't make
any difference.
- Thank you, Levi.
No one's ever told me
I was pretty before.
Thanks.
[indistinct chatter]
- You must have struck
a big one, huh, Mountain Man?
[chuckling]
- This ain't nothing.
- Huh?
- I've got nuggets...
[people gasping]
...bigger than this!
More than you've ever seen.
- Oh, my God!
- Ah!
- Ah, yeah.
Get my friend here some
of your special brew, Ripple.
[laughter]
It, uh...
It must get kind of lonely
living alone up there
in them hills, uh?
I bet it's been years
since you had
a home-cooked meal!
- I never had a home.
[laughter]
- A man needs a woman
to make it one.
A good woman
can make a man a home
anywhere he chooses.
Even... Even in the mountains!
Oh... oh yeah, yeah,
have a drink.
- Ah!
[glass shattering]
[gasps]
[laughs]
[groaning]
- Buy yourself some
stronger glass, Ripple.
This tastes like candy.
[laughter]
- See, you cross over
right here.
- Oh, Levi, I don't know.
That looks a little rickety.
- Oh, no, it's all right.
Come on!
- But I can't swim.
- Oh, don't you worry.
I won't let you fall in.
- Okay.
[wood creaking]
[soft music]
It's beautiful here.
- Told you it was. Here.
- I've been thinking
about your dream of going
to San Francisco, Levi.
- You were?
- Mm-hmm.
I've come up with this.
Dreams are made to pursue.
Otherwise,
we wouldn't have them.
- You know...
I have another dream.
- Another invention?
- That you'd be my wife.
- Your wife?
- You could work
at a tailor shop,
right next to me.
We could even put
your name on the sign.
"Levi and Clementine's
tailor shop."
- Levi.
- If you'd just say yes,
my heart would get down
out of my throat.
- I would be honoured
to be your wife, Levi.
[chuckling]
But you've got to ask
my daddy first.
- Oh... I'll ask him tonight!
- Oh, I wouldn't do that
if I were you.
- Why?
- Daddy's got his heart
and pocket
set on me marrying
a rich prospector.
- Oh...
Love is what makes
people rich, not gold.
- I know.
But Daddy's not exactly
crazy about you, Levi.
- I know, I know.
- In fact, he thinks
you're crazy.
It's going to take me
a couple of weeks
to work on him.
- Weeks?
- Well, two weeks is nothing
in a lifetime.
- Oh...
- Besides,
it's important that
you pursue that dream,
and go to San Francisco
and start looking around...
and setting things up!
- Okay.
I'm going to go
to San Francisco.
But I'm going to be back here
in exactly two weeks.
And I'm gonna ask your daddy
for your hand in marriage.
[soft music]
[laughing]
- Oh, where are you going?
- To pursue my dream!
- Now?
- I'll be back here
in two weeks.
I'll meet you right here,
under a full moon.
- I'll make you a big
celebration dinner!
- Beans!
Clementine, you have made me
a very happy man.
Two weeks!
- Bye.
[narrator]:
Well, it took Clementine
nearly the whole two weeks
to work up the gumption
to talk to her daddy
about marrying Levi.
Little did she know,
Lucky Jake had spent
the last two weeks
arranging a marriage deal
of his own.
It wasn't that Clementine
and her daddy
didn't see eye to eye,
it was just who they were
seeing that was different.
- He's been in San Francisco
the last couple of weeks
pursuing his dream.
He's coming back
tomorrow and...
Well, he wants to ask you
for my hand in marriage.
- Marriage?
I'm glad you brought that up,
Clementine.
- He's a real gentleman,
Daddy.
And very intelligent.
[water rumbling]
- Clementine, darling,
you've always been able to find
the real good side in folks.
That's a real virtue of yours.
- Oh, it ain't hard,
Daddy.
He's a very special man.
- Hmm.
- Do you know he even
sews his own clothes?
- A big guy like that?
I was wondering who sewed
them skins together.
- Well, he may be
new in town and...
I realize I haven't known him
that long, but...
Well, I knew the first time
I saw him
I wanted to marry him.
- I think that's
the most sensible thing
I ever heard you say.
- Any girl would want
to marry him.
He's so tall and handsome.
And he even likes
my short hair.
- No one is taller.
And I guess you could
call him handsome
if he fixed his self up.
- Oh, I like him
just the way he is.
- Love sure can twist
the mind.
- You're the one who always
wanted me to get married, Daddy.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
And I finally found
the man of my dreams.
- Well, Clementine, darling,
I think you made
the perfect choice.
We were just talking
about you over some brew.
- He's back?
He's not supposed to be back
until tomorrow night!
- Well, a lot of men
can surprise you,
especially
when they're in love.
In fact, I invited him over
for dinner tomorrow night.
- Dinner?
- Mm-hmm.
Now, you be sure
to make a lot.
Just be sure and don't use
that pretty crystal
of your mama's.
- Oh why? We've been saving it
for a special occasion.
- He's got a lot of mighty
peculiar habits.
Of course,
once he gets married,
then I'm sure it'll all be--
- Oh, Daddy!
[groaning]
Oh, I better go start picking
some apples for my pie.
- Yeah, all right.
- It's got to be
extra special.
- Be sure and make a lot!
A lot!
- Yes, Daddy.
- A lot.
[soft music]
[narrator]: The evening of
the prenuptial dinner arrived.
Clementine's heart
was a flutter.
She fixed an extra
special diner,
set an extra special table
and bought herself
a brand new hat.
For her, time couldn't
move fast enough.
- I wanna look real pretty
for you, Levi.
[narrator]: Meanwhile,
the mules wouldn't move
fast enough for Levi.
♪ Excavating for a mine
♪ Dwelt a miner,
Forty-niner ♪
♪ And his daughter
Clementine ♪
- They're the best in the west!
Here we are.
Clementine?
Clementine, darling!
This here is our special guest.
The Mountain Man.
- I thought you invited Levi!
- Levi? That fool don't
even know what gold is!
Why would I let him marry you?
- But Daddy,
I want to marry him.
[laughing]
[loud chomping]
[groaning of pleasure]
- He's a hearty eater.
And a nice man,
you'll see.
After he's had a shave
and a haircut,
he'll look almost normal.
- She cooks good!
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
- I'll take her!
- Take her?
[laughing]
Daddy! What's he talking about?
- Oh, Clementine, darling,
don't get excited.
The Mountain Man and me
made a little deal.
- A deal?
[screaming]
Daddy!
- On second thought...
[indistinct chatter]
[growling]
- Let me down!
- On second thought...
[narrator]: Now, Lucky Jake
was not what you'd call
a proud father of the bride.
He had made a real bad deal.
The worst of his life.
And the Mountain Man,
who thought he'd made
a great deal,
had no idea who or what
he was carrying
on his shoulders.
Clementine wasn't exactly
the obedient wife
he had bargained for.
Meanwhile...
♪ Oh, my darling
Clementine ♪
♪ You are lovely and
So beautiful ♪
♪ Soon to be wife
Of mine ♪
- I made a deal
with the Mountain Man.
- What?
- I'm ashamed to say this,
but I gave her hand
in marriage
for a part of
the mountain man's claim.
- You did that to Clementine?
You ought to be
ashamed of yourself!
- I said that.
When I saw him carrying her off,
I realized what a dreadful
mistake I had made.
What will I do
without her?
- What will we do
without her?
- Yeah, who's gonna
talk to us?
I told her all about home!
- She's the only one who cares
about the London Times.
- She was giving me
a recipe for wonton.
With beans!
- I... I guess I just
took her for granted.
I never realized how much
she did for all of us.
Mountain Man is not gonna be
an easy man to deal with.
- Is he?
Well, he'd just as soon kill you
and spit on you.
[all]: Yeah.
- We've got to do something.
We've got to get her back.
[all]: "We"?
- Yeah, you're right.
She's my daughter.
And I'm the one that made
the deal with the Mountain Man.
So, it's my responsibility
to bring her back.
- Yeah.
- Come on.
[groaning]
- Let's go get her.
- I'm not going in there.
I'm not going in there!
- I made a deal
with your daddy.
- Well then,
let him sleep in there,
because I'm not!
- You're my wife.
You'll do as I say.
- I'm not your wife,
we were never married.
- I traded part of my claim
for you!
- I'm not a horse,
you can't trade for me.
- You do as I say
and get in there!
- I will not!
[grunting]
I won't!
- Yes!
- I'm not!
- Yes!
- I won't!
- Yes.
- It was her apple pie
that was the best.
- I beg to differ, sir,
but her gooseberry pie
never tasted better
in London.
- Oh, I've been in every
state of the Union,
they're ain't no better
mulberry pie.
- Yeah. You're all wrong.
It's her beans.
She makes the best darn
beans in the world.
[narrator]: Well, they say
the way to a man's heart
is through his stomach.
And the men were beginning
to realize
that it wasn't just
Clementine's beans
that propelled them
up that mountain.
♪ And her shoes were
Number nine ♪
♪ Herring boxes
Without topses ♪
♪ Sandals were for
Clementine ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Oh my darling ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Clementine ♪
♪ I can hardly wait
To see you ♪
♪ In your new red shoes
So fine ♪
[chuckling]
Clementine?
I'm back.
Clementine?
Knock-knock!
Clementine, are you there?
Ah...
Our spot by the mill.
- Woman! I'm losing my patience.
You get in that cave
or I'm gonna be forced
to use physical violence on you!
[scoff]
Hah!
[gasping]
- Don't you touch my daughter!
[gasps]
Mountain Man,
I made a mistake.
I'm calling the deal off.
I want my daughter back.
Look, I'll give you back
the 10% of your claim.
- A deal's a deal.
- Well, I'm taking it back!
- Well, I aint!
- Daddy!
- I'll get you back,
don't worry, darling.
[laughter]
- You ain't getting her back!
She's mine!
- Mountain Man...
Mountain Man, now, listen.
Listen.
Mountain Man, you and me
as rational men,
I'm sure we can reach
some kind of an agreement.
I'll tell you what.
I will give you 10%
of my claim.
[laughter]
Okay, 20%!
[laughs]
Okay, 50%!
[laughs]
Okay, 75%!
[laughs]
No! Don't you hurt
my daughter!
You can have all my claim!
All of my claim!
My daughter is far more
important to me than any gold!
[breathing heavily]
- You can have my claim too,
just please, don't hurt her.
- Yeah, here's my claim too.
- Take my claim too.
[laughter]
- Here's mine too.
- Mine too!
- And mine too!
- Now, don't hurt her.
Here's mine.
- And mine.
- And mine!
- My claim too.
[laughter]
- Don't hurt her, Mountain Man.
- Here's mine, please,
let her go.
[laughter]
- Will you pardon
your old daddy
for being so stupid?
I don't know what was going
through my head.
- I do, Daddy,
but it's all right. I love you.
[laughing]
- Hey, this calls
for a celebration!
[cheering]
♪ Oh my darling
Oh my darling ♪
[narrator]: So Clem was saved
and the last laugh
was on the Mountain Man,
for what the miners never knew
was their claims
contained nothing
but fool's gold.
Kind of appropriate,
ain't it?
[screaming and laughing]
Meanwhile...
[lively music]
And, meanwhile...
[cheering]
[lively music]
[clapping rhythmically
and cheering]
- Oh, darling, sit.
- Oh.
- Here you go, Clementine.
Fixed up a little something
special for you.
- Well, thank you.
Hm, it's good.
Nice and sweet.
I think you ought to bottle
this stuff, Mr. Ripple.
[chuckling]
- Come on, hurry.
You haven't danced with me yet!
- All right, Daddy.
You'd better watch it!
[cheering, clapping]
[cheering]
[sighing]
- You're gonna sleep well
tonight, Clementine.
People always sleep well
under a full moon.
- Oh, Levi!
Daddy, I've got to go
meet Levi.
He's waiting for me
down at the old mill!
- Okay, darling.
- Oh...
Daddy, Levi wants
to marry me.
- Do you love him?
- Yes, Daddy, I do.
- Well, then go right ahead.
I just want you to be happy.
- Oh, thank you, Daddy.
Thank you!
- Hey, Jake, come on!
[chuckling]
[lively music]
[cheering]
[narrator]: Clementine felt
like the belle of the ball,
the toast of the tent camp,
she had never felt so loved.
Behind her was a room
full of miners
that had given up everything
they had for her.
And ahead of her,
waiting by the old mill,
was Levi.
The man of her dreams.
Now all that love,
plus a couple of cups
of Ripple's brew,
made Clementine
just a might giddy.
[gentle music]
[cheering]
- Clementine,
come on, please.
[laughter]
[dramatic music]
Oh!
Oh, oh!
Woah!
[water splashing]
♪ Oh my darling
Oh my darling ♪
♪ Oh my darling, Clementine
[narrator]:
Levi was never the same.
In fact,
none of the miners were.
None of them would ever
forget Clementine.
When they sang her song,
they felt the warmth
of her spirit.
In a few days,
they all left camp.
Mr. Yorshire
went back to London
where he published a newspaper.
Sneaky Pete went back home
to Oklahoma
where he discovered
that the black bubbly stuff
was called oil.
Mr. Sum Luk
went to Los Angeles,
opened a restaurant.
His speciality? Beans.
Mr. Ripple went on to a place
called the Napa Valley
and bottled his brew.
Lucky Jake went
to San Francisco
to help Levi pursue his dream.
They succeeded, the most of us
still wear them today.
Anyway, that's how come
we still call them Levi's.
In all their hearts,
they knew that Clementine
changed their lives.
She showed them
that their dreams
were more valuable
than any gold.
And for that,
they'll never forget her.
Wherever they sing her song,
she's as real as she ever was.
The warmth of her spirit
will always be
in their hearts.
And sometimes,
real late on a summer's night,
folks say they can still
see her ghost out there,
dancing on the lake
in her new red shoes.
[chuckling]
♪ In a tent camp in a canyon
♪ Excavating for a mine
♪ Dwelt a miner
Forty-niner ♪
♪ And his daughter
Clementine ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Oh my darling ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Clementine ♪
♪ You are lost and
Gone forever ♪
♪ Dreadful sorry
Clementine ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Clementine ♪
♪ Clementine
♪ Oh darling Clementine
♪ Light she was and
Like a fairy ♪
♪ And her shoes were
Number nine ♪
♪ Though in life I used
To hug her ♪
♪ Now she's dead
I'll draw the line ♪
♪ Oh my darling
♪ Clementine
♪ Clementine
♪ Oh my darling
♪ Clementine
♪ Clementine
♪ Oh darling
♪ Clementine
♪ Clementine
Subtitling: difuze
♪ In a tent camp in a canyon
♪ Excavating for a mine
♪ Dwelt a miner
Forty-niner ♪
♪ And his daughter
Clementine ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Oh my darling ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Clementine ♪
♪ You are lost and
Gone forever ♪
♪ Dreadful sorry
♪ Clementine
- My Darling Clementine.
We all learned this song as kids
and have never forgotten it.
But though generations
have sung this tune
keeping alive the spirit
of the California gold rush,
no one ever really knew
who this Clementine was.
Well, in tonight's Tall Tale,
you'll get to meet her.
And you'll discover why we think
her story inspired this
legendary American folk song.
And the next time you sing it,
you'll understand why
they call this special lady
"darling Clementine".
[man singing]
♪ Dreadful sorry
♪ Clementine
♪ Oh, my darling
[woman humming at a distance]
- Clementine.
[woman, echoing]: Levi!
[humming]
- Clementine!
- Levi.
[humming]
- Clementine!
Clementine!
[humming]
Clementine! Clementine!
Clementine!
Clementine!
Clem...
Clementine?
Oh...
Clementine.
What am I doing?
[grunting]
[rhythmic music]
[dramatic music]
I saw her!
[rattling]
I saw Clementine!
Down by the lake!
I did, I swear!
She was singing,
dancing on the lake.
Sir, I saw your daughter.
- Son, we're all missing her,
and I know how tough it is.
We're all grieving for her loss?
- Come over here and sit down.
I'll get a little something
for your nerves.
- I saw her.
Just as sure as I'm sitting
here.
She was just as real as...
[breathing heavily]
...as she ever was.
- Here.
[narrator]: Oh, he saw her,
alright.
He saw that golden ghost
dancing on the lake.
There was something about
that girl none of them could
ever forget.
Something about her that
changed their lives.
And so, this is the story of
how Clementine became a legend,
and of how her legend
became a song.
It all happened
back in the gold rush of 1849.
That's when gold was discovered
in California.
Rumors were rampant.
People were saying gold was
everywhere,
that the streams were
so thick with gold,
there was hardly
any room for the water.
Something happened to ordinary
men when they heard these
golden tales.
Leaving their jobs
and families,
they'd drop everything
and head west,
no matter if they were
in the middle of a shave or
getting married.
Grooms left their brides
and preachers left the cloth.
Gold was in their eyes,
and greed in their hearts.
[rhythmic music]
One little nugget could cause
a whole lot of trouble.
[indistinct yelling]
But it was hard to blame them
when the mountain sparkled
with gold nuggets the size
of watermelons.
- Look at that!
- Gold!
[narrator]: Like old hound dogs
chasing a rabbit,
the smell of gold made
men run faster
and farther than they
ever thought they could.
But like most hound dogs
discover,
the rabbit usually gets away.
Most never found gold.
Others never gave up.
Like Lucky Jake.
He added "lucky" to his name
because he was sure that one da
his luck would change,
and he'd strike more gold
than he knew what to do with.
But that day never came.
What Jake didn't know is,
the real reason he was lucky,
was because of his daughter
Clementine.
She was worth more than
all the gold in all the hills
of California.
Clementine was special.
She had her own way
of doing things.
Now heaven only knows
why Jake had the fortune to be
the father of the only woman
in the mining camp.
You see, miners were
superstitious
and thought a woman would
bring them bad luck.
[breathing heavily]
- Oh...
[laughing]
[narrator]: Truth is,
those smelly old miners
didn't appreciate
all that Clementine
gave them.
[laughing]
That is except for one miner.
- Get them bloomers!
[sighing]
[narrator]: One day, romance
came into bloom
all on account
of them bloomers.
[mysterious music]
- How dare you?
What's a gentleman like you
doing with a woman's personals
in his hands?
- Oh, I'm sorry, Miss
Clementine.
I didn't mean no disrespect.
- You're new around here,
ain't you?
- I arrived yesterday.
- How did you know my name then?
- Well...
It's just kind of hard
not to notice the only lady
in a mining camp.
- I'll be seeing you.
- Here, let me help you out.
- Why, thank you.
- My pleasure.
Bye.
- Bye.
[narrator]: Now, some folks
say there's no such thing
as love at first sight.
But I ain't one of them.
[bell ringing]
[man]: Come and get it!
[indistinct conversation]
- And they were the size
of half dollars.
- Half dollars?
- Yeah.
- I was down by the river
and found you some more
mulberries for your brew.
- Sure was a good idea putting
in them mulberries.
Boys just love it.
- I heard about a chap
out the river named Silvester.
Now, one night,
just after midnight,
he woke up hearing this soft
knocking.
It was Tommy Knocker himself.
- Tommy Knocker?
- Mm-hmm.
Silvester followed the sound
of that knocking and he struck
it right then.
- I heard that Silvester's
coming down here.
- Silvester sounds like
an interesting fellow.
- Daddy, have you met Levi?
- Silvester is just lucky.
Everywhere he go, he strikes it.
- Silvester sounds more
and more interesting every
time.
- These are excellent beans,
Miss Clementine.
- Why, thank you.
They're the same ones I make
every night.
- Tonight,
they're exceptionally good.
- Thank you, again.
- These beans are just the way
we make them back home.
- How?
- Burnt.
[laughing]
- You're always talking about
back home. You must miss it.
[laughing]
- That'll teach you.
- Yeah.
[mysterious music]
- These herring boxes
are only temporary.
I ordered myself a pair of real
pretty red high-top shoes
through the mail-order
catalogue.
- Gold!
- What?
- She's got gold on her feet.
- The mulberry patch.
[indistinct yelling]
- I'll be back later.
- It's alright. I got it.
- What were you saying,
Miss Clementine?
- Well, I ordered them
two years ago,
but we don't seem to stay
in town long enough for them
to reach us.
- It's a big problem.
I know exactly what you mean.
Can I have some more of your
beans, Miss Clementine?
- Sure.
- One time, I ordered some
scissors, some needles...
Took them almost six months
to find me.
- I just keep imagining my shoes
lost between no place, really,
and whatchamacallit, the town
we were in last.
- Mm-hmm.
- These poor little red shoes,
just sitting out there getting
dusty.
Just waiting for someone
to send them on.
- Hmm.
You know, these are the best
beans I've ever hard,
Miss Clementine.
- Why, thank you.
It is my special recipe.
I call them "strike it rich"
beans.
Because one time after I served
them, three miners struck it
rich.
And ever since then, Daddy's
been eating beans every day.
- Every day?
- Every day.
And he insists I fix them just
the way I did then.
Daddy's kind of...
Well, you know how miners are.
Superstitious.
- Mm-hmm.
- One time, after finding a gold
nugget about the size of a bean,
Daddy wouldn't take his socks
off.
Wouldn't even let me wash them.
[chuckling]
Oh, my! You are a good eater.
- Oh, they're so good.
- Well, anyway,
Daddy just kept on wearing them
until they finally just
dissolved right there
on his feet.
Nothing left but a bunch
of threads.
- You sure take good care
of your daddy.
- I'm all he's got.
- He's a lucky man.
[soft music]
[mysterious music]
Would you... excuse me?
[narrator]: Four helpings
of beans!
Now it's plain to see that
Clementine and Levi are becomin
an explosive couple.
But Lucky Jake has his own
plans for his only daughter.
- Clementine, darling, I think
it's time we had us a talk.
- Yes, Daddy.
- I've been giving a lot
of thought
and I think it's time
we got you married off.
- Oh, Daddy, don't start
that again.
- Clementine, you're getting
older.
Men like to take younger girls
for wives.
[sighing]
- You remember last time
when we were living
a the last mining camp
on the road number 7?
And you invited that man named
Henry for dinner?
And he couldn't keep
his head up
and he fell right in his plate
of beans?
- Well, he was tired.
He struck it big that day.
- He was old, Daddy.
Died, right there at supper!
- I always knew we should've
asked him for lunch.
- Daddy...
- What would make me most happy,
in my later years, darling
Clementine,
is knowing that was well
cared for.
What is most important
in getting you a husband,
is finding a man of sufficient
means,
preferably one who has struck
it, and struck it rich.
Someone like that fellow
Silvester we was talking about
at dinner.
[narrator]: The next day,
Clementine obliged to daddy
and went to meet Silvester.
Hard to believe Lucky Jake
would want his grandchildren
to look like him,
he wasn't just ugly,
he was downright ugly.
But Clem always tried to look
for the good in people.
- Mr. Silvester!
Mr. Silvester!
Lucky Jake!
How are you?
This here is my young daughter
Clementine.
As you can see, she's a
fine-looking young woman,
with fine, strong bones,
come from good stock.
And she's got herself a mighty
fine personality.
Say hello to Mr. Silvester,
Clementine.
- Hello.
Nice meeting you.
- Yeah.
[chuckling]
She's very talented.
She's an excellent housekeeper.
She can mend and sow anything!
She's a good cook.
She can cook just about
anything.
Her apple pie is probably not
just the greatest,
it's probably the best west
of the Rockies.
Probably the best in
the country.
Probably in the whole universe.
But she herself don't eat very
much.
[narrator]: Well, she tried,
but there was a no good
in Silvester.
[Jake continues talking.]
He wasn't only ugly,
he was mean.
And he was greedy.
- Oh!
[narrator]: Even greedier
than Lucky Jake.
Clementine left those two
splashing over a nugget.
And sloshed downstream to
someone who appreciated her
for more than just her assorted
fruit pies.
[humming]
- Hi, Miss Clementine.
- Hi.
- That was a very pretty tune
you were just humming.
Is that anything I might know?
- No. I made it up.
Been humming it since
I was a kid.
- Really?
- How's it going, today?
- Oh, fine, fine.
- Any luck?
- Oh, no, no.
There's nothing in this stream.
- Been mining long?
- Well, about six months.
- Levi, I...
- See, I was on my way to San
Francisco to open a tailor shop.
And everybody told me
I was crazy.
And I had to come up here
and make my fortune.
- A tailor shop.
What an interesting line
of work.
- It's been a dream of mine ever
since I was just a little boy.
You know, it's real fascinating
to watch somebody make two
pieces of material into one.
Just by using...
a tiny little piece of thread.
- I never thought of it that
way.
But you're absolutely right.
- Didn't I tell you
Mr. Silvester was a nice man,
huh?
- Yes. Quite charming, Daddy.
- Yeah. You see?
- Hi.
- Hello.
[eerie music]
Levi!
You idiot!
That was gold!
- Really, where?
- Out of my way!
[indistinct mumbling]
Whoever told you've got
hand for gold?
I've never seen such a big idiot
in all my life.
[Levi]: Jake, is that what gold
looks like?
[Jake]: Oh, you wouldn't know
gold if it stood up, shook your
hand and...
She not only knows how to make
a good apple pie,
she could make
a gooseberry pie,
and a great mulberry pie...
[narrator]: Lucky Jake could
keep right on selling,
it didn't matter.
Clementine's heart already
belonged to Levi.
[Jake]: Come here, let me help
you with that.
[soft music]
[indistinct chatter]
- Oh, I see you finally got your
paper, Mr. Yorkshire.
They really got here fast.
It took less than three months.
- There's no paper like
the London Times.
- Well, it must be nice when
it's all in once piece.
[chuckling]
[Sum Luk]: And the nuggets
were the size of a quarter.
And the bin must've been
ten feet long!
His donkey was so loaded
when he left camp, he could
barely walk.
- They were as big as my fist.
- He had solid gold nuggets
the size of grapefruits.
His whole claim was solid
with them.
- Any mending needs to be done
today, Mr. Ripple?
- Oh, got lots, Clementine.
- I mended half those pants
last week.
- Boys are tough on them.
- I need another round of your
brew over here, Ripple.
- How's it going today,
Sneaky Pete?
- Well, I've been kind of
cooped up in here.
- Well, how come you're not out
there mining?
- I think my luck has run off,
Clementine.
- Why don't you just go back to
that ranch of yours in Oklahoma?
- It's got all this black stuff
coming up out of the ground.
- Can't you do anything with it?
- Useless!
It's still sticky.
Once you've got it on you,
you can't get it off.
[eerie music]
[laughing]
[eerie music]
[rattling]
[clattering]
- Who's the girl?
- Cle... Clementine.
[laughing]
- Give me the biggest pitcher
of brew you've got.
And make it fast!
[laughing]
[gasping]
[sighing in relief]
Do it again.
[laughing]
[groaning]
[mysterious music]
Ah!
[gasping]
- I was just returning this to
you. It seems... you dropped it.
[cracking]
[laughing]
[narrator]: Clementine had no
idea what was so funny.
This Mountain Man was just a
big bully.
Rude, and mean, and hairy.
She couldn't determine whether
that fur was something
he was wearing
or something he was
growing.
And he smelled worse than
a bear on a hot summer's day.
This was not the company or
the air quality this Clementine
preferred.
[birds chirping in the distance]
- You prefer the cross-stitch?
- Most of the time.
I think it looks best.
Don't you?
- Oh, it looks fine.
It's not very strong.
- Yeah, I know.
I'Ve resowed these more times.
What is it about miners
that they're always ripping
their pants?
- Oh, that's because this fabric
isn't made for a working man.
See, these pants...
These pants are made for
somebody sitting behind a desk,
or for going to church.
See, a working man's pants
ought to be made out of
something strong,
you know, endurable. Like
the stuff tents are made out of.
And they ought to be held
together with metal rivets.
Not just thread.
- Metal rivets?
You've given this a lot
of thought, haven't you?
- Ever since I was a kid when
I used to scratch my knees
and the patches my mom used
to saw on my pants,
I've always thought that pants
ought to be made out of some...
stronger material.
- I never thought of it.
And you're absolutely right.
[soft music]
- You really think so?
- I think it's
the smartest thing
I've ever heard in my life.
- I've never told anybody
this before,
but one time,
I even cut up a tent
to sew together a pair of pants.
- You did?
- Yeah.
- Did you wear them?
- Oh yeah.
- And?
- They're a little rough.
[laughing]
They caused, uh...
They caused... a little chafing.
- Sometimes, it just gets
so hot wearing these bonnets.
They keep the sun
from giving you a red neck
or a burnt nose.
- And they're fashionable.
- But not practical.
Just like long hair.
I know men like it
and everything, but...
When you're working outdoors...
- I like your hair.
I think your hair
is different.
Unique.
I think it'd cause a whole new
rush to the barber shop.
Who cut it for you?
- I did.
- All by yourself?
- Well, wasn't gonna let
my daddy do it.
[laughs]
- I think it's very pretty.
- You do?
- You're very pretty,
Clementine.
You know, long hair,
short hair,
it just doesn't make
any difference.
- Thank you, Levi.
No one's ever told me
I was pretty before.
Thanks.
[indistinct chatter]
- You must have struck
a big one, huh, Mountain Man?
[chuckling]
- This ain't nothing.
- Huh?
- I've got nuggets...
[people gasping]
...bigger than this!
More than you've ever seen.
- Oh, my God!
- Ah!
- Ah, yeah.
Get my friend here some
of your special brew, Ripple.
[laughter]
It, uh...
It must get kind of lonely
living alone up there
in them hills, uh?
I bet it's been years
since you had
a home-cooked meal!
- I never had a home.
[laughter]
- A man needs a woman
to make it one.
A good woman
can make a man a home
anywhere he chooses.
Even... Even in the mountains!
Oh... oh yeah, yeah,
have a drink.
- Ah!
[glass shattering]
[gasps]
[laughs]
[groaning]
- Buy yourself some
stronger glass, Ripple.
This tastes like candy.
[laughter]
- See, you cross over
right here.
- Oh, Levi, I don't know.
That looks a little rickety.
- Oh, no, it's all right.
Come on!
- But I can't swim.
- Oh, don't you worry.
I won't let you fall in.
- Okay.
[wood creaking]
[soft music]
It's beautiful here.
- Told you it was. Here.
- I've been thinking
about your dream of going
to San Francisco, Levi.
- You were?
- Mm-hmm.
I've come up with this.
Dreams are made to pursue.
Otherwise,
we wouldn't have them.
- You know...
I have another dream.
- Another invention?
- That you'd be my wife.
- Your wife?
- You could work
at a tailor shop,
right next to me.
We could even put
your name on the sign.
"Levi and Clementine's
tailor shop."
- Levi.
- If you'd just say yes,
my heart would get down
out of my throat.
- I would be honoured
to be your wife, Levi.
[chuckling]
But you've got to ask
my daddy first.
- Oh... I'll ask him tonight!
- Oh, I wouldn't do that
if I were you.
- Why?
- Daddy's got his heart
and pocket
set on me marrying
a rich prospector.
- Oh...
Love is what makes
people rich, not gold.
- I know.
But Daddy's not exactly
crazy about you, Levi.
- I know, I know.
- In fact, he thinks
you're crazy.
It's going to take me
a couple of weeks
to work on him.
- Weeks?
- Well, two weeks is nothing
in a lifetime.
- Oh...
- Besides,
it's important that
you pursue that dream,
and go to San Francisco
and start looking around...
and setting things up!
- Okay.
I'm going to go
to San Francisco.
But I'm going to be back here
in exactly two weeks.
And I'm gonna ask your daddy
for your hand in marriage.
[soft music]
[laughing]
- Oh, where are you going?
- To pursue my dream!
- Now?
- I'll be back here
in two weeks.
I'll meet you right here,
under a full moon.
- I'll make you a big
celebration dinner!
- Beans!
Clementine, you have made me
a very happy man.
Two weeks!
- Bye.
[narrator]:
Well, it took Clementine
nearly the whole two weeks
to work up the gumption
to talk to her daddy
about marrying Levi.
Little did she know,
Lucky Jake had spent
the last two weeks
arranging a marriage deal
of his own.
It wasn't that Clementine
and her daddy
didn't see eye to eye,
it was just who they were
seeing that was different.
- He's been in San Francisco
the last couple of weeks
pursuing his dream.
He's coming back
tomorrow and...
Well, he wants to ask you
for my hand in marriage.
- Marriage?
I'm glad you brought that up,
Clementine.
- He's a real gentleman,
Daddy.
And very intelligent.
[water rumbling]
- Clementine, darling,
you've always been able to find
the real good side in folks.
That's a real virtue of yours.
- Oh, it ain't hard,
Daddy.
He's a very special man.
- Hmm.
- Do you know he even
sews his own clothes?
- A big guy like that?
I was wondering who sewed
them skins together.
- Well, he may be
new in town and...
I realize I haven't known him
that long, but...
Well, I knew the first time
I saw him
I wanted to marry him.
- I think that's
the most sensible thing
I ever heard you say.
- Any girl would want
to marry him.
He's so tall and handsome.
And he even likes
my short hair.
- No one is taller.
And I guess you could
call him handsome
if he fixed his self up.
- Oh, I like him
just the way he is.
- Love sure can twist
the mind.
- You're the one who always
wanted me to get married, Daddy.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
And I finally found
the man of my dreams.
- Well, Clementine, darling,
I think you made
the perfect choice.
We were just talking
about you over some brew.
- He's back?
He's not supposed to be back
until tomorrow night!
- Well, a lot of men
can surprise you,
especially
when they're in love.
In fact, I invited him over
for dinner tomorrow night.
- Dinner?
- Mm-hmm.
Now, you be sure
to make a lot.
Just be sure and don't use
that pretty crystal
of your mama's.
- Oh why? We've been saving it
for a special occasion.
- He's got a lot of mighty
peculiar habits.
Of course,
once he gets married,
then I'm sure it'll all be--
- Oh, Daddy!
[groaning]
Oh, I better go start picking
some apples for my pie.
- Yeah, all right.
- It's got to be
extra special.
- Be sure and make a lot!
A lot!
- Yes, Daddy.
- A lot.
[soft music]
[narrator]: The evening of
the prenuptial dinner arrived.
Clementine's heart
was a flutter.
She fixed an extra
special diner,
set an extra special table
and bought herself
a brand new hat.
For her, time couldn't
move fast enough.
- I wanna look real pretty
for you, Levi.
[narrator]: Meanwhile,
the mules wouldn't move
fast enough for Levi.
♪ Excavating for a mine
♪ Dwelt a miner,
Forty-niner ♪
♪ And his daughter
Clementine ♪
- They're the best in the west!
Here we are.
Clementine?
Clementine, darling!
This here is our special guest.
The Mountain Man.
- I thought you invited Levi!
- Levi? That fool don't
even know what gold is!
Why would I let him marry you?
- But Daddy,
I want to marry him.
[laughing]
[loud chomping]
[groaning of pleasure]
- He's a hearty eater.
And a nice man,
you'll see.
After he's had a shave
and a haircut,
he'll look almost normal.
- She cooks good!
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
- I'll take her!
- Take her?
[laughing]
Daddy! What's he talking about?
- Oh, Clementine, darling,
don't get excited.
The Mountain Man and me
made a little deal.
- A deal?
[screaming]
Daddy!
- On second thought...
[indistinct chatter]
[growling]
- Let me down!
- On second thought...
[narrator]: Now, Lucky Jake
was not what you'd call
a proud father of the bride.
He had made a real bad deal.
The worst of his life.
And the Mountain Man,
who thought he'd made
a great deal,
had no idea who or what
he was carrying
on his shoulders.
Clementine wasn't exactly
the obedient wife
he had bargained for.
Meanwhile...
♪ Oh, my darling
Clementine ♪
♪ You are lovely and
So beautiful ♪
♪ Soon to be wife
Of mine ♪
- I made a deal
with the Mountain Man.
- What?
- I'm ashamed to say this,
but I gave her hand
in marriage
for a part of
the mountain man's claim.
- You did that to Clementine?
You ought to be
ashamed of yourself!
- I said that.
When I saw him carrying her off,
I realized what a dreadful
mistake I had made.
What will I do
without her?
- What will we do
without her?
- Yeah, who's gonna
talk to us?
I told her all about home!
- She's the only one who cares
about the London Times.
- She was giving me
a recipe for wonton.
With beans!
- I... I guess I just
took her for granted.
I never realized how much
she did for all of us.
Mountain Man is not gonna be
an easy man to deal with.
- Is he?
Well, he'd just as soon kill you
and spit on you.
[all]: Yeah.
- We've got to do something.
We've got to get her back.
[all]: "We"?
- Yeah, you're right.
She's my daughter.
And I'm the one that made
the deal with the Mountain Man.
So, it's my responsibility
to bring her back.
- Yeah.
- Come on.
[groaning]
- Let's go get her.
- I'm not going in there.
I'm not going in there!
- I made a deal
with your daddy.
- Well then,
let him sleep in there,
because I'm not!
- You're my wife.
You'll do as I say.
- I'm not your wife,
we were never married.
- I traded part of my claim
for you!
- I'm not a horse,
you can't trade for me.
- You do as I say
and get in there!
- I will not!
[grunting]
I won't!
- Yes!
- I'm not!
- Yes!
- I won't!
- Yes.
- It was her apple pie
that was the best.
- I beg to differ, sir,
but her gooseberry pie
never tasted better
in London.
- Oh, I've been in every
state of the Union,
they're ain't no better
mulberry pie.
- Yeah. You're all wrong.
It's her beans.
She makes the best darn
beans in the world.
[narrator]: Well, they say
the way to a man's heart
is through his stomach.
And the men were beginning
to realize
that it wasn't just
Clementine's beans
that propelled them
up that mountain.
♪ And her shoes were
Number nine ♪
♪ Herring boxes
Without topses ♪
♪ Sandals were for
Clementine ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Oh my darling ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Clementine ♪
♪ I can hardly wait
To see you ♪
♪ In your new red shoes
So fine ♪
[chuckling]
Clementine?
I'm back.
Clementine?
Knock-knock!
Clementine, are you there?
Ah...
Our spot by the mill.
- Woman! I'm losing my patience.
You get in that cave
or I'm gonna be forced
to use physical violence on you!
[scoff]
Hah!
[gasping]
- Don't you touch my daughter!
[gasps]
Mountain Man,
I made a mistake.
I'm calling the deal off.
I want my daughter back.
Look, I'll give you back
the 10% of your claim.
- A deal's a deal.
- Well, I'm taking it back!
- Well, I aint!
- Daddy!
- I'll get you back,
don't worry, darling.
[laughter]
- You ain't getting her back!
She's mine!
- Mountain Man...
Mountain Man, now, listen.
Listen.
Mountain Man, you and me
as rational men,
I'm sure we can reach
some kind of an agreement.
I'll tell you what.
I will give you 10%
of my claim.
[laughter]
Okay, 20%!
[laughs]
Okay, 50%!
[laughs]
Okay, 75%!
[laughs]
No! Don't you hurt
my daughter!
You can have all my claim!
All of my claim!
My daughter is far more
important to me than any gold!
[breathing heavily]
- You can have my claim too,
just please, don't hurt her.
- Yeah, here's my claim too.
- Take my claim too.
[laughter]
- Here's mine too.
- Mine too!
- And mine too!
- Now, don't hurt her.
Here's mine.
- And mine.
- And mine!
- My claim too.
[laughter]
- Don't hurt her, Mountain Man.
- Here's mine, please,
let her go.
[laughter]
- Will you pardon
your old daddy
for being so stupid?
I don't know what was going
through my head.
- I do, Daddy,
but it's all right. I love you.
[laughing]
- Hey, this calls
for a celebration!
[cheering]
♪ Oh my darling
Oh my darling ♪
[narrator]: So Clem was saved
and the last laugh
was on the Mountain Man,
for what the miners never knew
was their claims
contained nothing
but fool's gold.
Kind of appropriate,
ain't it?
[screaming and laughing]
Meanwhile...
[lively music]
And, meanwhile...
[cheering]
[lively music]
[clapping rhythmically
and cheering]
- Oh, darling, sit.
- Oh.
- Here you go, Clementine.
Fixed up a little something
special for you.
- Well, thank you.
Hm, it's good.
Nice and sweet.
I think you ought to bottle
this stuff, Mr. Ripple.
[chuckling]
- Come on, hurry.
You haven't danced with me yet!
- All right, Daddy.
You'd better watch it!
[cheering, clapping]
[cheering]
[sighing]
- You're gonna sleep well
tonight, Clementine.
People always sleep well
under a full moon.
- Oh, Levi!
Daddy, I've got to go
meet Levi.
He's waiting for me
down at the old mill!
- Okay, darling.
- Oh...
Daddy, Levi wants
to marry me.
- Do you love him?
- Yes, Daddy, I do.
- Well, then go right ahead.
I just want you to be happy.
- Oh, thank you, Daddy.
Thank you!
- Hey, Jake, come on!
[chuckling]
[lively music]
[cheering]
[narrator]: Clementine felt
like the belle of the ball,
the toast of the tent camp,
she had never felt so loved.
Behind her was a room
full of miners
that had given up everything
they had for her.
And ahead of her,
waiting by the old mill,
was Levi.
The man of her dreams.
Now all that love,
plus a couple of cups
of Ripple's brew,
made Clementine
just a might giddy.
[gentle music]
[cheering]
- Clementine,
come on, please.
[laughter]
[dramatic music]
Oh!
Oh, oh!
Woah!
[water splashing]
♪ Oh my darling
Oh my darling ♪
♪ Oh my darling, Clementine
[narrator]:
Levi was never the same.
In fact,
none of the miners were.
None of them would ever
forget Clementine.
When they sang her song,
they felt the warmth
of her spirit.
In a few days,
they all left camp.
Mr. Yorshire
went back to London
where he published a newspaper.
Sneaky Pete went back home
to Oklahoma
where he discovered
that the black bubbly stuff
was called oil.
Mr. Sum Luk
went to Los Angeles,
opened a restaurant.
His speciality? Beans.
Mr. Ripple went on to a place
called the Napa Valley
and bottled his brew.
Lucky Jake went
to San Francisco
to help Levi pursue his dream.
They succeeded, the most of us
still wear them today.
Anyway, that's how come
we still call them Levi's.
In all their hearts,
they knew that Clementine
changed their lives.
She showed them
that their dreams
were more valuable
than any gold.
And for that,
they'll never forget her.
Wherever they sing her song,
she's as real as she ever was.
The warmth of her spirit
will always be
in their hearts.
And sometimes,
real late on a summer's night,
folks say they can still
see her ghost out there,
dancing on the lake
in her new red shoes.
[chuckling]
♪ In a tent camp in a canyon
♪ Excavating for a mine
♪ Dwelt a miner
Forty-niner ♪
♪ And his daughter
Clementine ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Oh my darling ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Clementine ♪
♪ You are lost and
Gone forever ♪
♪ Dreadful sorry
Clementine ♪
♪ Oh my darling
Clementine ♪
♪ Clementine
♪ Oh darling Clementine
♪ Light she was and
Like a fairy ♪
♪ And her shoes were
Number nine ♪
♪ Though in life I used
To hug her ♪
♪ Now she's dead
I'll draw the line ♪
♪ Oh my darling
♪ Clementine
♪ Clementine
♪ Oh my darling
♪ Clementine
♪ Clementine
♪ Oh darling
♪ Clementine
♪ Clementine
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