Big Rock Candy Mountain Chords

In the intro chords, the melody is played in the baseline the same as the the final two lines of the intro.
 
Dm    /E  /F /F# G: These slash chords are meant to symbolize a walking baseline up to G.  So you can hit the
D minor chord briefly, and then drop it and walk up the 6th string on each downbeat without
really a chord over it.
 
[Intro]
C/G C C/G C C/G C
 
    C       C/G    C        C/G
One evening as the sun went down
        C      C/G        C
And the jungle fires were burning,
         C            C/G  C        C/G
Down the track came a hobo hiking
       C            C/G     C        C/G
And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning
    F            C           F    C
I'm headed for a land that's far away
   F        F   /F# G
Besides the crystal fountains
   C         C/G       C      C/G
So come with me, we'll go and see
    C        C/G   C
The Big Rock Candy Mountains
 
 
[Verse 1]
       C        C/G    C         C/G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
          F                    C       C/G
There's a land that's fair and bright,
          F                C       C/G
Where the handouts grow on bushes
        Dm    /E  /F /F# G
And you sleep out every  night.
          C       C/G     C        C/G
Where the boxcars all are empty
        F                C       C/G
And the sun shines every day
        F             C
And the birds and the bees
        F         C
And the cigarette trees
    F        C
The lemonade springs
          F            C
Where the bluebird sings
       G7             C           C/G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
 
[Verse 2]
       C        C/G   C          C/G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
        F                C       C/G
All the cops have wooden legs
        F                 C       C/G
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
        Dm   /E  /F  /F# GF#    G
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
    C        C/G       C       C/G
The farmers' trees are full of fruit
        F                 C       C/G
And the barns are full of hay
       F        C
Oh I'm bound to go
            F        C
Where there ain't no snow
          F          C
Where the rain don't fall
    F           C
The winds don't blow
       G7             C           C/G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
 
[Verse 3]
       C        C/G   C         C/G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
    F                 C       C/G
You never change your socks
        F                 C        C/G
And the little streams of alcohol
     Dm    /E  /F   /F# G
Come trickling down the rocks
    C        C/G     C         C/G
The brakemen have to tip their hats
        F                 C       C/G
And the railway bulls are blind
          F       C
There's a lake of stew
      F        C
And of whiskey too
        F          C
You can paddle all around it
     F      C
In a big canoe
       G7             C           C/G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
 
[Verse 4]
       C        C/G   C          C/G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
    F                 C       C/G
The jails are made of tin.
    F                  C           C/G
And you can walk right out again,
   Dm   /E /F  /F# G
As soon as you are in.
      C        C/G           C        C/G
There ain't no short-handled shovels,
   F              C       C/G
No axes, saws or picks,
    F        C
I'm bound to stay
          F         C
Where you sleep all day,
           F        C
Where they hung the jerk
       F            C
That invented work
       G7             C           C/G
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
 
[Outro]
C C/G C C/G
(whistling...)
F C C/G
(whistling...)
F C
(whistilng...)
F C
(whistling...)
     F                C
I'll see you all this coming fall
       G7             C
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
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