Big Rock Candy Mountains
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One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fires were burning
down the track came a hobo hiking And he said Boys I'm not turning
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I'm headed for a land that's far a-way be-side the crystal fountains
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So come with me we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains
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In the Big Rock Candy Mountains There's a land that's fair and bright
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Where the hand-outs grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
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Where the box-cars all are empty and the sun shines every-day
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On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees the lemonade springs
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where the blue bird sings in the Big Rock Candy Mountains
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In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs
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and the bull-dogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
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The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
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the wind don't blow in the Big Rock Candy Mountains
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In the Big Rock Candy Mountains You never change your socks
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and the little streams of alcohol come a trickling down the rocks
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The brakemen have to tip their hats and the rail-road bulls are blind
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There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too you can paddle all round 'em
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in a big canoe in the Big Rock Candy Mountains
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In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin
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And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
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There ain't no short-handled shovels No axes saws or picks
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I'm gonna stay where you sleep all day where they hung the jerk
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who invented work in the Big Rock Candy Mountains
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I'll see you all this coming fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains