Big Rock Candy Mountain
Harry McClintock

Transcribed by Christian Helle (xtianism@yahoo.com)




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One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning

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Down the track came a hobo hikin' and he said boys I'm not turning

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I'm headed for a land that's far away beside the crystal fountain

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So come with me we'll go and see over the big rock candy mountains



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In the big rock candy mountain there's a land that's fair and bright

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Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night

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Where the boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day

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on the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees the lemonade

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springs where the bluebird sings on the big rock candy mountains



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In the big rock candy mountain all the cops have wooden legs

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and the bull dogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft boiled eggs

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the farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay

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oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow

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there ain't no fall the wind don't blow

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in the big rock candy mountains



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In the big rock candy mountain you never change your socks

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and the little streams of alchohol come a trickling down the rocks

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the breakmen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind

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there's a lake and stew and whisky too you can paddle all around 'em

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in a big canoe in the big rock candy mountains



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In the big rock candy mountain the jails are made of tin

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And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in

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There ain't no short handle shovels, no axes, saws or picks

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I'm a-goin'-a stay where you sleep all day where they hung the jerk

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that invented work in the big rock candy mountains



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(Whistle)

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(Whistile)

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I'll see you all this commin' fall in the big rock candy mountains