Pete Seeger – Big Rock Candy Mountain (Guitar)

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    G       D7     G        D7
One evening as the sun went down

        G      D7         G
And the jungle fires were burning,

         G            D7
Down the track came a hobo hiking,

       G            D7      G
And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning

    C            G           C   G
I'm headed for a land that's far away

  C              G         D7
Besides the crystal fountains

     G       D7       G      D7
I'll see you all this coming fall

       G        D7    G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

       G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

       C           G
It's a land that's fair and bright

          C                G
Where the handouts grow on bushes

        C               D7
And you sleep out every night

    G
The boxcars all are empty

        C                G
And the sun shines every day

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

          C           G             C          G
Where the sleet don't fall, and the wind don't blow

       D7             G
In the big rock candy mountains

        G
Oh, the buzzin' of the bees and the cigarette trees

       C          G
By the soda water fountain

       C
By the lemonade springs

          G
Where the bluebird sings

       D7             G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

       G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

    C                 G
You never change your socks

C                 G
Little streams of alcohol

       C                  D7
Come a tricklin' down the rocks

        G
Oh, the shacks all have to tip their hats

    C                  G
The railroad bulls are blind

          C       G        C          G
There's a lake of stew and Ginger ale too

        C           G             C     G
You can paddle all around it in a big canoe

       D7             G
In the big rock candy mountains

        G
Oh, the buzzin' of the bees and the cigarette trees

       C          G
By the soda water fountain

       C
By the lemonade springs

          G
Where the bluebird sings

       D7             G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

       G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

    C                G
The cops have wooden legs

    C                 G
the bulldogs all have rubber teeth

        D7
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs

    G
The boxcars all are empty

        C                G
And the sun shines every day

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

          C           G             C          G
Where the sleet don't fall, and the wind don't blow

       D7             G
In the big rock candy mountains

        G
Oh, the buzzin' of the bees and the cigarette trees

       C          G
By the soda water fountain

       C
By the lemonade springs

          G
Where the bluebird sings

       D7             G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

       G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

    C                 G
The jails are made of tin

C                  G
You can slip right out again

   C                    D7
As soon as they put you in

      G
There ain't no short-handled shovels

   C              G
No axes, saws nor picks

    C        G
I'm bound to stay

          C         G
Where you sleep all day

           C        G
Where they hung the jerk

       C      G
That invented work

       D7             G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

        G
Oh, the buzzin' of the bees and the cigarette trees

       C          G
By the soda water fountain

       C
By the lemonade springs

          G
Where the bluebird sings

       D7             G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains