The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Burl Ives, Чарлз Айвз

Oh the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees

The soda water fountain where the lemonade springs

And the bluebird sings in that Big Rock Candy Mountain

On a summer day

In the month of May

A burly bum came ahiking

Down a shady lane

Through the sugar cane

He was looking for his liking

As he strolled 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

The soda water fountain where the lemonade springs

And the bluebird sings in that 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 you never throw rocks

And your hair is never parted

Oh the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees

The soda water fountain where the lemonade springs

And the bluebird sings in that Big Rock Candy Mountain

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 hiked away,

The mileposts they were counting

But they never arrived

At the lemonade tide

On the big rock candy mountain

Oh the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees

The soda water fountain where the lemonade springs

And the bluebird sings in that Big Rock Candy Mountain