BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS - Harry Mac McClintock - 1928

[enfield06]

Eye double U double U!!!!!! OBU.

[rigaudien]

Very good quality !!!

[hoot6theyre]

wow

[Perfectlyscience67]

Sounds like a good place to go to when you wanna get hammered.

[TCVulture]

In the big rock candy mountain there are no dislike buttons

[RuDeBoYxxxPUNK]

Best fucken song ever! ... If ur into more punky music tho check out The Restarts Cover :)

[shk6]

makes me happy :)

[godfatherscar]

thumbs up if you imagine the beginning of "O' Brother Where Art Thou" when you hear his song

[mrtaterman]

@godfatherscar looking for thumbs up but failed at it! lol!

[godfatherscar]

@mrtaterman no it just reminded me of when they're running off and its funny shit.....

[guppi234]

lol it sounds like the flapjack theme song

[unholyimage]

@guppi234 I definitely think you've got something there. Especially, the "soda pop comes trickling down the rocks" part.

[guppi234]

@unholyimage also when it says come with me we'll go and see the big rock candy mountain... in flapjack it says come with me we'll go and see a place called candy mountain =) FLAPJACK ROCKS!!!

[getsomelead]

@guppi234 the flapjack theme was based on this song

[ivycompton]

I read the lyrics for the "parlor version" of this song and they're very raunchy indeed. A great song with very clever lyrics in any version.

[Nvcca2]

FlapJack!!!!

[masterwm]

@suegoodloe .... Me too, I have been saying that I wanted it to be played at my funeral for a long time! either way, see ya on the flip side!

[oshmunnies]

thumbs up if you've listened to this more than once today

[peterborough1960]

@oshmunnies

Thanks for asking but we heard it ten times today and ten times more coming up.We have decided it to be our wedding song. I am glad that someone appreciates it as much as us.

You have great taste in music .

Buddyblair and Sue

[caddyrecord]

i wounder if John Denver did a cover of this song

[caddyrecord]

awsome song!!!!, i wish John Denver ever recorded this song

[101tjaart]

WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE,I'AM PACKING UP,ARE YOU COMING,WHY SHOULD I PACK UP,LETS JUST GO ,WE WILL BE HAPPY,EVERYTHING IS THERE ALREADY.

[elviraeight]

I am 21 and I usted to live with my papa who played this song to me every night before bedtime and I love it more than any other song in the world, im so glad i found it on here!

[MrKipW]

Mac also does a socko version of "Ain't We Crazy?" that Dr. Demento played at least once, back in '74. Thanks for sharing this!

[rothwellss]

As a child our father would sing this and our mother would be annoyed with the lyrics I realise now. Years later at school as a boy of about 7 or 8 we sang the Burl Ives lyrics so never realised the different lyrics until now thanks for the post

[TheOneAndOnlyFink]

I amazed at how much more clear your record sounds compared to my copy of the soundtrack to "O Brother Where art Thou."

[16mmDJ]

I am so jealous that you have this on 78!

[TikTikBOOMBOX]

@suegoodloe It is kind of late to agree with your acquisition, but I would have to say that it would be an HONOR to have his played at my funeral. This song is actually about a hobo's view on heaven. The line,"I'll see you all this coming fall!" means that during the depression, most hobos did not survive the winter months. This song is so heartfelt and down to Earth.

[rix66]

@suegoodloe --A great friend of mine croaked last month at 47. We're playing this song, this version, at his Memorial Celebration. He loved it.

[neatoauctions]

Why the performer of this tune decided to omit some of the original lyrics is unclear. The redacted passage is: “On, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Girls never wear a thing. An’ to your surprise, when you wake up, you’ll find a lipstick ring. The pharmacies’ backdoors don’t lock, and syringes grow on trees. There’s opium goo, and cocaine too; Those things occur in nature, in case yuh didn’t knew, on The Big Rock Candy Mountain.”

[thewhistler]

I hope your using a victor needle 

[philtorpey]

From the catalogue number can you confirm that this is the B side of the disc? The number appears to be suffixed with a 'B'. If so what's on the A side?

Great post as always.

[SirDude456]

@suegoodloe you planing to die any time soon?

[Tombstone314159]

Mac really should be better know. What a wonderful sense of humour. Cone on record companies!

[sergaiey]

Part of the Magic, is the static.

[KezRox]

This is the version that's on the "O Brother Where Art Thou" Soundtrack.

[Curttehmurt]

I think this song is actually improved with the record scratches

[MrDeCorey]

This is such a wonderful song.

Thank you so much for posting.

[erichitz79]

haha the cops all have wooden legs, the bulldogs all have wooden teeth. i wanna go there

[jigfar7]

such a nostalgic song :') 

[peanutbutterbananas1]

love that song i also like the comershal that has that song :0)

i want that record

[peanutbutterbananas1]

love that song i also like the comershal that has that song :0)

[IqarP15]

hung the jerk that invented work! ;D

[tpmh37]

catchy little diddy............i like this version the best.

[DanM25456]

Good song, but that LL Bean commercial drives me crazy.

[Faisisteacha]

@DanM25456 It's nice and refreshing to hear it though, even if the product sucks.

[legoboy2255]

thank you back pack camercial

[ThatFella1]

Aww so fun!

[krissygirl333]

@suegoodloe , I love it, good idea Sue..........it's so cool. It's on some commercial now...............makes me smile

[dmackler58]

fantastic song, one of my favorites

[gakipopa]

its fantastic song

[maineiacial]

omg you win for having that record

[chgsf03]

Watching a record spin while listening to a song seems mesmerizing..

[gunsmithgunfreak]

this is real music

[NoYouShutUpDad]

Haywire was a prominent member of the IWW (industrial workers of the world) who called for the end of capitalism and a new era of complete worker control.

[ThePredator376]

My favorite song ever!!!!!!!!!!! I agree with suegoodloe, I want it played at my funeral, because if you think about it, the big rock candy mountains sounds like heaven.

[lazyehmt]

Where can i download this song. Im 15 and i love this Kind of music. I wish i was born in this early times where it was about working and being a MAN.

[synesthesia67]

this should go in a time capsule...for people to listen to 2000 years from now....if there are still people...

[starboy57]

If anyone has seen the cartoon "Flapjack" off Cartoon Network, the theme song is a variation of this song. Horray for learning!

[justfine77777]

This song is so cool. I watched Brother Where Art Thou the other day, and this is in the intro. It really made me laugh. I have listened to it on here a few times since then. I play music with some guys, and I want to do this song.

[nrobnas43]

wow, an old 78. My folks have a bunch of those from Burl Ives. great song!

[forgeinmind]

the origon of this song isnt known

[GBallaJ]

It was a modern version based on the Medieval Cockayne stories and others liek it. It's just a song aobut a dreamt paradise, this one being for hobos.The lyrics are actually not that hard to relate to the life of a 1930s hobo.

[paullubliner]

@GBallaJ Not the '30's those hobos go way back to the1800's

[stevenfd123]

I've read stories by him and about him in the old pulp monthly Railroad Magazine. The one and only Haywire Mac.

[strew8]

We played this record on our wind up victrola in the 1940's before we got electricity.  I would say we played it hundred of times. It was one of our favorite tunes. thanks for putting it on.

[delcardobaybandgeek]

It's Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock not Harry "Mac" McClintock

[EliasCrowe]

@delcardobaybandgeek - says "MAC" on the record

[specialedd13]

@delcardobaybandgeek just think of it as his nickname's nickname :D

[filmcrafters]

Harry did a wonderful job of capturing the spirit of his times in a way that still resonates. For an updated version in the same Haywire Harry style that captures the spirit of our times, check out the "Big Old Federal Government" video.