The Big Rock Candy Mountain-Pete Seeger

[ti:The Big Rock Candy Mountain] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:Brothers & Sisters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.47]One evening as the sun went down [00:03.27]And the jungle fires were burning [00:05.84]Down the track came a hobo hiking [00:08.50]He said boys I'm not turning [00:11.28]I'm heading for a land that's far away [00:14.05]Besides that crystal fountains [00:16.24] [00:17.34]I'll see you all this coming fall [00:20.10]And the Big Rock Candy Mountain [00:22.38] [00:23.99]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [00:26.53]There's a land that's fair and bright [00:28.57] [00:29.11]Handouts grow on bushes [00:31.27]And you sleep out every night [00:33.67] [00:34.23]The boxcars all are empty [00:36.99]The sun shines every day [00:38.62] [00:39.30]I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow [00:41.80]Where the sleet don't fall [00:43.01]And the wind don't blow [00:44.45]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [00:46.81]Wooh the birds and the bees [00:50.47]In the cigarette trees [00:52.01]By the soda water fountain [00:54.75]By the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings [00:57.70]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [01:00.15] [01:02.02]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [01:04.64]You never change your socks [01:06.64] [01:07.53]Little streams of alcohol [01:09.80]Come trickling down the rocks [01:11.92] [01:13.28]The shacks all have to tip their hats [01:15.96]The railroad bulls are blind [01:17.81] [01:18.36]There's a lake of stew and ginger ale too [01:20.85]You can paddle all around it in a big canoe [01:23.50]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [01:26.12] [01:27.45]The birds and the bees and the cigarette trees [01:30.13]By the soda water fountain [01:33.02]By the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings [01:35.81]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [01:38.32] [01:40.08]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [01:42.75]The cops have wooden legs [01:44.92] [01:45.53]The bulldogs all have rubber teeth [01:47.98]And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs [01:50.26] [01:50.94]Boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day [01:55.95]I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow [01:58.54]Where the sleet don't fall and the wind don't blow [02:01.16]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [02:03.91] [02:05.51]Birds and the bees and the cigarette trees [02:08.43]By the soda water fountain [02:10.60] [02:11.15]By the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings [02:13.88]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [02:16.35] [02:19.39]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [02:21.95]The jails are made of tin [02:24.64]You can slip right out again [02:27.19]As soon as they put you in [02:29.57] [02:30.75]There ain't no short-handled shovels [02:33.19]No axes saws nor picks [02:35.27] [02:35.81]I'm bound to stay where you sleep all day [02:38.41]Where they hung the jerk [02:39.62]That invented work [02:40.84]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [02:43.95]All the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees [02:49.29]By the soda water fountain [02:52.77]By the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings [02:56.19]In the Big Rock Candy Mountain [02:59.52]The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Pete Seeger