The Big Rock Candy Mountain Lyrics. The big rock candy mountains 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 and the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings in the big rock candy. About big rock candy mountain big rock candy mountain first recorded by harry mcclintock in 1928 is a folk song about a hobo s idea of paradise a modern version of the medieval concept of cockaigne.
In the big rock candy mountain it s a land that s fair and bright the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night. Big rock candy mountain lyrics. Where the boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day and the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings in the big rock candy.
The big rock candy mountains 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.
In the big rock candy mountain chorus. In the big rock candy mountain it s a land that s fair and bright the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night. 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. To that big rock candy mountain so the very next day they hiked away the mileposts they were counting but they never arrived at the lemonade tide on the big rock candy mountain oh the buzzin of the bees in the cigarette trees the soda water fountain where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings in that big rock candy mountain.