Big Rock Candy Mountain-Lawrence Welk with The Lennon Sisters

[ti:Big Rock Candy Mountain] [ar:Highwaymen/Marilyn Child] [al:Acoustic Folk Generation Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.05]Big Rock Candy Mountain - Highwaymen,Marilyn Child [00:07.19]On a summer day in the month of May [00:10.57]A burly bum came hiking [00:12.85] [00:13.92]Down a shady lane through the sugar cane [00:17.39]He was looking for his liking as he roamed along [00:22.77]He sang a song of the land of milk and honey [00:26.78] [00:27.73]Where a bum can stay for many a day [00:31.20]And he don't need any money [00:33.87] [00:34.65]Oh the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees [00:38.95] [00:39.70]The soda water fountain [00:42.19] [00:43.48]Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings [00:47.30]On the big rock candy mountain [00:50.09] [00:53.18]There's a lake of gin we can both jump in [00:56.80]And the handouts grow on bushes [00:59.29] [01:00.54]In the new Monday you can sleep all day [01:04.10]And the bars all serve free lunches [01:06.84] [01:07.82]Where the mail train stops and there ain't no cops [01:11.43]And the folks are tender hearted [01:13.69] [01:14.94]Where you never sew rocks and you never wear socks [01:18.36] [01:18.98]Your hair is never parted [01:21.06] [01:22.15]Oh the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees [01:26.36] [01:27.27]The soda water fountain [01:29.65] [01:30.95]Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings [01:34.81]On the big rock candy mountain [01:37.30] [01:49.30]Oh a farmer and his son they were on the run [01:52.41]To the hay field they were bounding [01:54.86] [01:55.94]Said the bum to the sun why don't you come [01:59.41]To that big rock candy mountain [02:01.81] [02:02.95]So the very next day they hiked away [02:05.90] [02:06.77]The mile post they kept counting [02:08.88] [02:09.91]But they never arrived at the lemonade tide [02:13.57]On the big rock candy mountain [02:15.83] [02:16.71]Oh the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees [02:20.96] [02:21.71]The soda water fountain [02:24.05] [02:25.24]Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings [02:29.08]On the big rock candy mountain [02:31.76] [02:33.54]Big rock candy mountain [02:35.81]