“In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks, and the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks.”
“There’s a lake of stew and of whiskey, too,
You can paddle all around ‘em in a big canoe...”
I was going to mention the stew and whiskey, but I had already used up my allotment of periods for this sentence.
“In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin,
And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in.”
I can’t imagine ever growing tired of this song.
As a kid, I was vaguely insulted by this song, but now I get it.
Anyone hankering for a listen can push that link (which is amazingly still active) or you can listen to my “roadtrip” where will forever remain, I hope.