Intro

Verse

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

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

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

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

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

Instrumental

Outro

I’ll see you all this comin’ fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains