Harry McClintock Big Rock Candy Mountain Capo I C One evening as the sun went down G C And the jungle fires were burning C Down the track came a hobo hiking G C He said Boys, I'm not turning F C F C I'm heading for a land that's far away F G Beside that crystal fountain C F C I'll see you all this coming fall C G C In the Big Rock Candy Mountain In the Big Rock Candy Mountain The handouts grow on bushes And you sleep out ev'ry night The boxcars are all empty And the sun shines every day I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow Where the sleet don't fall & the winds don't blow In the Big Rock Candy Mountain O the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees By the soda water fountain Near the lemonade springs where th bluebird sings On the Big Rock Candy Mountain In the Big Rock Candy Mountain You never change your socks Little streams of alky-hol Come trickling down the rocks O the shacks all have to tip their hats And the RR bulls are blind There's a lake of stew & gingerale too And you can paddle all around it in a big cance In the Big Rock Candy Mountain In the Big Rock Candy Mountain The cops have wooden legs The bulldogs all have rubber teeth #And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs The box-cars all are empty And the sun shines every day I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow Where the sleet don't fall & the winds don't blow In the Big Rock Candy Mountain In the Big Rock Candy Mountain The jails are made of tin You can slip right out again As soon as they put you in There ain't no short-handled shovels No axec, 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 Mountain