Artist: Harry McClintock
Author: traditional
Label: Victor
Year: 1928
Member of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.); author of labour songs as Sam Bass and Hallelujah Bum Again. His version's on the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack (minus the plural form). Song about the hobo's paradise ("Where the cops have wooden legs and the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft-boiled eggs").
Covers:
Goebel Reeves [as The Big Rock Candy Mountain]
Tex Morton [idem]
Burl Ives [idem]
American folksong in the oral tradition, first published in 1906.
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)