3 Chords used in the song: C, F, G
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C F C
One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
C F C
Down the track came a hobo hiking and he said boys I'm not turning
C F C
I'm headin for a land that's far away beside the crystal fountains
C F 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
C F C
Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
C F C
Where the boxcars are all empty and the sun shines every day
F C F C
On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
F C F C
Where the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
G C
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
(Use the same pattern throughout the other verses).
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senorcrazy
(Albany)
The C before "night" should be a G, but it's really good. This song is one of my favorites.
09 Aug 2010
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About this song: Big Rock Candy Mountain
"Big Rock Candy Mountain" is a song about a hobo's idea of paradise - a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne, and similar to the cavalryman's concept of Fiddler's Green. The song describes a hobo's vision of utopia, a place where the "hens lay soft boiled eggs" and there are "cigarette trees". The song is also rather ironic and satirical in that it additionally describes modified versions of things that one wouldn't think should exist in paradise at all, such as police (with wooden legs) and jails (made of tin)...