Big Rock Candy Mountain Chords & Tabs

by Harry McClintock

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Pattern 1:
BPM: 150
Denominator: 8
Triplet: Yes
Measures: [1, 202, 202, 1, 202, 101, 1, 202, 202, 1, 202, 101]

[Intro]
C G C

[Verse 1]
    C                                           G        C      
One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
         C                                            G       C       
Down the track came a hobo hiking and he said, "Boys, I'm not turning"
    F            C           F    C     F         C       G        
I'm headed for a land that's far away besides the crystal fountains
   C                                  G              C        
So come with me, we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Verse 2]
       C                                  F                    C      
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright,
          F                C              F               G    
where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
          C                             F                C  
Where the boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day
       F             C            F         C          F        C                
on the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, the lemonade springs where the
F        C            G              C        
bluebird sings in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Verse 3]
       C                                F                C    
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs,
        F                 C                    F                    G   
and the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
    C                                        F                 C  
The farmers' trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
        F        C              F        C               F          C    
Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow, where the rain don't fall,
    F          C           G              C        
the wind don't blow in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Verse 4]
       C                            F                 C     
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks,
        F                 C              F                  G    
and the little streams of alcohol come a trickling down the rocks
    C                                       F                  C    
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
          F       C           F        C           F           C             
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too, you can paddle all around 'em in a
F      C         G              C        
big canoe in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Verse 5]
       C                            F                 C   
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin,
    F                  C            F               G 
and you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
      C                                  F             C    
There ain't no short-handled shovels, no axes, saws or picks
      F     C              F         C              
I'm a gonna stay where you sleep all day, where they
F         C          F       C  
hung the Turk that invented work
       G              C        
in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Instrumental]
C       F   C
F C F C

[Outro]
     F       C        F      C           G              C        
I'll see you all this comin' fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains