Chords for Vernon Dalhart-Big Rock Candy Mountain

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_ [Cm] One [Eb] evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning, down the track came a hobo a-hikin'
And he said, boys, I'm not turnin' I'm headed for a land that's far away [Bb]
beside the crystal fountain
[Cm] So come with me, we'll all go [Abm] and see the big rock candy [Cm] mountain
In the big rock candy [Eb] mountain there's a [Ab] land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes [D] and you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty, where the sun shines every day
Oh, the birds and the bees and the cigarette [E] trees and the lemonade [Bb] springs
Where the bluebird sings [C] in the big rock candy [Eb] mountain
_ [Cm] _ [Eb] _ In the big rock candy [F] mountains all the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow, where the rain don't fall and the wind don't blow
In the big rock candy [Eb] mountain
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_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [F] In the big rock candy mountain you never change your spot
[Ab] And the little streams of alcohol [Bb] come a-tricklin' down the rock
Where the brakemen have to [Ab] tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too, you can paddle all around them in a big canoe
In the big rock candy [Eb] mountain
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ In the big rock [Ab] candy mountains the jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again [F] as soon as you are in
[Eb] There ain't no short-handled shovels, no axes, saws or picks
I'm gonna stay where you sleep all day, where the hung the Turk that [F] invented work
In the big rock candy [Eb] mountain
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_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ I'll see you all [Gm] this coming fall in the big rock candy mountain
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