Slim Clark - Big Rock Candy Mountain lyrics

On a summer's day in the month of May a burly bum come a-hiking Down the shady lane the drifter came and looking for his liking As he roamed along he hummed a song "The land of milk and honey" Where a bum can stay for many a day and he won't need any money Oh the buzzing of the bees And the cigarette trees And the thorny water fountain The lemonade springs Where the bluebird sings In the Big Rock Candy Mountain There's a lake of gin you can all jump in And the handouts grow in bunches In the new mown hay you 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 In each little puff with his pocket full of rocks And you know that's where he started Oh the buzzing of the bees And the cigarette trees And the thorny water fountain The lemonade springs Where the bluebird sings In the Big Rock Candy Mountain All ahead of the run came the fireman's son through the hayfield he was a-bounding Said the bum to the son "why don't you come to the Big Rock Candy Mountain?" So the very next day the I fill way and the milestones they kept pounding But they never arrived at the lemonade guy at the Big Rock Candy Mountain Oh the buzzing of the bees And the cigarette trees And the thorny water fountain The lemonade springs Where the bluebird sings In the Big Rock Candy Mountain