Big Rock Candy Mountains Lyrics

Big Rock Candy Mountains lyrics

Big Rock Candy Mountains

 Harry Mcclintock

 (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)

 

 One evening as the sun went down

 And the jungle fires were burning,

 Down the track came a hobo hiking,

 And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning

 I'm headed for a land that's far away

 Besides the crystal fountains

 So come with me, we'll go and see

 The Big Rock Candy Mountains

 

 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,

 There's a land that's fair and bright,

 Where the handouts grow on bushes

 And you sleep out every night.

 Where the boxcars all are empty

 And the sun shines every day

 And the birds and the bees

 And the cigarette trees

 The lemonade springs

 Where the bluebird sings

 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

 

 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

 All the cops have wooden legs

 And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth

 And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs

 The farmers' trees are full of fruit

 And the barns are full of hay 

 Oh I'm bound to go

 Where there ain't no snow

 Where the rain don't fall

 The winds don't blow

 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

 

 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

 You never change your socks

 And the little streams of alcohol

 Come trickling down the rocks

 The brakemen have to tip their hats 

 And the railway bulls are blind

 There's a lake of stew

 And of whiskey too

 You can paddle all around it

 In a big canoe

 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

 

 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,

 The jails are made of tin.

 And you can walk right out again,

 As soon as you are in.

 There ain't no short-handled shovels,

 No axes, saws nor picks,

 I'm bound to stay

 Where you sleep all day,

 Where they hung the jerk

 That invented work

 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

 

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 I'll see you all this coming fall

 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains