Harry McClintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain guitar chord
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Harry McClintock
Transcribed by Christian Helle (xtianism@yahoo.com)
C/G
One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
C/G
Down the track came a hobo hikin' 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 beside the crystal fountain
C/G G C/G
So come with me we'll go and see over the big rock candy mountains
C/G F C/G
In the big rock candy mountain there's a land that's fair and bright
F C/G G
Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
C/G F C
Where the boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day
F C F C F
on the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees the lemonade
C F C G C/G
springs where the bluebird sings on the big rock candy mountains
C/G F C/G
In the big rock candy mountain all the cops have wooden legs
F C/G G
and the bull dogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft boiled eggs
C/G F C
the farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
F C F C
oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
F C F C
there ain't no fall the wind don't blow
G C/G
in the big rock candy mountains
C/G F C/G
In the big rock candy mountain you never change your socks
F C/G G
and the little streams of alchohol come a trickling down the rocks
C/G F C
the breakmen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
F C F C F C
there's a lake and stew and whisky too you can paddle all around 'em
F C G C/G
in a big canoe in the big rock candy mountains
C/G F C/G
In the big rock candy mountain the jails are made of tin
F C/G G
And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
C/G F C
There ain't no short handle shovels, no axes, saws or picks
F C F C F C
I'm a-goin'-a stay where you sleep all day where they hung the jerk
F C G C/G
that invented work in the big rock candy mountains
C/G F C/G
(Whistle)
F C F C
(Whistile)
F C F C G C/G
I'll see you all this commin' fall in the big rock candy mountains
