One evening as the sun went down

And the jungle fires were burning

Down the track came a hobo hiking

He said boys I'm not turning

I'm heading for a land that's far away

Besides that crystal fountains

I'll see you all this coming fall

And the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

There's a land that's fair and bright

Handouts grow on bushes

And you sleep out every night

The boxcars all are empty

The sun shines every day

I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow

Where the sleet don't fall

And the wind don't blow

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

Wooh the birds and the bees

In the cigarette trees

By the soda water fountain

By the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

You never change your socks

Little streams of alcohol

Come trickling down the rocks

The shacks all have to tip their hats

The railroad bulls are blind

There's a lake of stew and ginger ale too

You can paddle all around it in a big canoe

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

The birds and the bees and the cigarette trees

By the soda water fountain

By the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

The cops have wooden legs

The bulldogs all have rubber teeth

And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs

Boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day

I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow

Where the sleet don't fall and the wind don't blow

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

Birds and the bees and the cigarette trees

By the soda water fountain

By the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

The jails are made of tin

You can slip right out again

As soon as they put you in

There ain't no short-handled shovels

No axes saws nor picks

I'm bound to stay where you sleep all day

Where they hung the jerk

That invented work

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

All the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees

By the soda water fountain

By the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Pete Seeger