The Big Rock Candy Mountain-Harry McClintock

[ti:The Big Rock Candy Mountain] [ar:Harry McClintock] [al:Bona Fide Bluegrass and Mountain Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock [00:06.56]One evening as the sun went down [00:09.14]And the jungle fires were burning [00:11.56]Down the track came a hobo hiking [00:14.01]And he said Boys I'm not turning [00:17.31]I'm headed for a land that's far away [00:20.22]Besides the crystal fountains [00:22.84]So come with me we'll go and see [00:25.73]The Big Rock Candy Mountains [00:28.12]In the Big Rock Candy Mountains [00:30.69]There's a land that's fair and bright [00:33.20]Where the handouts grow on bushes [00:35.49]And you sleep out every night [00:38.54]Where the boxcars all are empty [00:41.15]And the sun shines every day [00:44.04]On the birds and the bees [00:45.60]And the cigarette trees [00:46.57]The lemonade springs [00:47.66]Where the bluebird sings [00:49.06]In the Big Rock Candy Mountains [00:52.35] [00:53.11]In the Big Rock Candy Mountains [00:55.42]All the cops have wooden legs [00:57.80]And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth [01:00.46]And the hens lay soft boiled eggs [01:03.08]The farmers' trees are full of fruit [01:05.80]And the barns are full of hay [01:08.16]Oh I'm bound to go [01:09.48]Where there ain't no snow [01:10.87]Where the rain don't fall [01:12.08]The winds don't blow [01:13.23]In the Big Rock Candy Mountains [01:16.21] [01:17.22]In the Big Rock Candy Mountains [01:19.52]You never change your socks [01:21.71]And the little streams of alcohol [01:23.96]Come trickling down the rocks [01:27.41]The brakemen have to tip their hats [01:29.42]And the railway bulls are blind [01:31.68]There's a lake of stew [01:32.99]And of whiskey too [01:34.23]You can paddle all around em [01:35.76]In a big canoe [01:36.76]In the Big Rock Candy Mountains [01:39.24] [01:40.55]In the Big Rock Candy Mountains [01:42.79]The jails are made of tin [01:45.13]And you can walk right out again [01:47.43]As soon as you are in [01:50.17]There ain't no short handled shovels [01:52.40]No axes saws or picks [01:54.82]I'ma going to stay [01:56.15]Where you sleep all day [01:57.53]Where they hung the Turk [01:58.80]That invented work [01:59.94]In the Big Rock Candy Mountains [02:01.91] [02:09.80]I'll see you all this coming Fall [02:11.95]In the Big Rock Candy Mountains