Big Rock Candy Mountain
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Attr. to Harry "Haywire Mac" McLintock, 1928

Here is one version of lyrics:

On a summer day in the month of May
A burly bum came hiking
Down a shady lane through the sugar cane
He was looking for his liking
As he roamed along he sang a song
Of the land of milk and honey
Where a bum can stay for many a day
And he won't need any money

Chorus
 Oh the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees
 Near the soda water fountain
 At the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
 On the big rock candy mountain

There's a lake of gin we can both jump in
And the handouts grow on bushes
In the new-mown hay we can sleep all day
And the bars all have free lunches
Where the mail train stops and there ain't no cops
And the folks are tender-hearted
Where you never change your socks and you never throw rocks
And your hair is never parted (Chorus)

Oh, a farmer and his son, they were on the run
To the hay field they were bounding
Said the bum to the son, "Why don't you come
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 (Chorus)


Another version of lyrics, similar to those sung by Burl Ives

[Chorus]
Oh, the buzzin' of the bees and the cigarette trees,
The soda water fountain;
Where the lemonade springs, and the bluebird sings,
In that Big Rock Candy Mountain.

[Verse 1]
On a summer day in the month of May
A burly bum came hikin';
Down a shady lane near the sugar cane,
He was lookin' for his likin'.
As he roamed along he sang a song
Of the land of milk and honey;
Where a bum can stay for many a day
And he won't need any money.

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
On the Big Rock Candy Mountain
The cops have wooden legs;
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.
I want to go where there ain't no snow,
Where the sleet don't fall and the wind don't blow,
In that Big Rock Candy Mountain.

[Chorus]