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Intro
Verse 1
One evening as the sun went down
and the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo
hiking and he said, "Boys, I'm
not turning"
I'm headed for a land that's far
away besides the crystal
fountains
So come with me, we'll go and
see the Big Rock Candy Mountains
Verse 2
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
there's a land that's fair and
bright,
where the handouts grow on
bushes and you sleep out every
night
Where the boxcars all are empty
and the sun shines every day
on the birds and the bees and
the cigarette trees, the
lemonade springs where the
bluebird sings in the Big Rock
Candy Mountains
Verse 3
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
all the cops have wooden legs,
and the bulldogs all have rubber
teeth and the hens lay
soft-boiled eggs
The farmers' trees are full of
fruit and the barns are full of
hay
Oh, I'm bound to go where there
ain't no snow, where the rain
don't fall,
the wind don't blow in the Big
Rock Candy Mountains
Verse 4
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
you never change your socks,
and the little streams of
alcohol come a trickling down
the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their
hats and the railroad bulls are
blind
There's a lake of stew and of
whiskey too, you can paddle all
around 'em in a
big canoe in the Big Rock Candy
Mountains
Verse 5
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
the jails are made of tin,
and you can walk right out again
as soon as you are in
There ain't no short-handled
shovels, no axes, saws or picks
I'm a gonna stay where you sleep
all day, where they
hung the Turk that invented work
in the Big Rock Candy Mountains
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Outro
I'll see you all this comin'
fall in the Big Rock Candy
Mountains
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