Big Rock Candy Mountain / Harry McClintock / Guitar and Vocal cover

Big Rock Candy Mountain is a song that was written by Harry McClintock and featured in the movie, O Brother Where Art Thou. I sing and play it on acoustic guitar fingerpicking style

"BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAS"

written By Harry McClintock (Haywire Mac)
lyrics

[Verse 1]
One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo hikin'
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 2]
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 everyday
All the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Verse 3]
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 4]
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come 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 them
In a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Verse 5]
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 going to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Oh the buzzing of the bees and the
cigarette trees by the soda water
fountain. By the lemonade springs
where the bluebird sings in the
big rock candy mountains

I'll see you all this coming fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

That, oh the buzzing of the bees verse at the end was an add on not in original song. I forget where I heard it