Songtext von Big Rock Candy Mountain

On a summer day in the month of May a burly bum came hiking Down a shady lane through the sugar cane he was looking for his liking As he roamed along he sang a song of the land of milk and honey Where a bum can stay for many a day and he won't need any money Oh the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees and the soda water fountain At the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings on the big rock candy mountain There's a lake of gin we can both jump in and the handouts grow on bushes In the new-mown hay we 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 Where you never change your socks and rocks and your hair is never parted Oh the buzzin' of the bees... Oh a farmer and his son they were on the run to the hay field they were bounding Said the bum to the son why don't you come to that big rock candy mountain So the very next day they kiked away the mile posts they kept counting But they never arrived at the lemonade tide on the big rock candy mountain Oh the buzzin' of the bees... On the big rock candy mountain