Big Rock Candy Mountain

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