<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>We will all be employed . . . building the yellow-brick road to Shangri-la, or . . . as Burl Ives calls it . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Big Rock Candy Mountain"</div><div><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div>"On a summer day<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">In the month of May</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">A burly bum </span><span class="s3">came</span><span class="s3"> hiking</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Down a shady lane</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Through the sugar cane</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">He was looking for his liking</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">As he roamed along</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">He sang a song</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Of the land of milk and honey</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Where a bum can stay</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">For many a day</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And he won't need any money</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span><span class="s3">Oh the </span><span class="s3">buzzin</span><span class="s3">' of the bees</span> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">In the cigarette trees</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Near the soda water fountain</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">At the lemonade springs</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Where the bluebird sings</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">On the big rock candy mountain</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">In the Big Rock Candy Mountain</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The cops have wooden legs</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The bulldogs all have rubber teeth</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The box-cars all are empty</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the sun shines every day</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">I'm bound to go</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Where there </span><span class="s3">ain't</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">no</span><span class="s3"> snow</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Where the sleet don't fall</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the winds don't blow</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span><span class="s3">In the Big Rock Candy Mountain."</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">---------------</p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span><span class="s3">(Other stanzas . . .)</span> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">"There's a lake of gin</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">We can both jump in</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the handouts grow on bushes</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">In the new-mown hay</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">We can sleep all day</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the bars all have free lunches</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Where the mail train stops</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And there </span><span class="s3">ain't</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">no</span><span class="s3"> cops</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the folks are tender-hearted</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Where you never change your socks</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And you never throw rocks</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And your hair is never parted</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Oh, a farmer and his son,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">They were on the run</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">To the hay field they were bounding</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Said the bum to the son,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">"Why don't you </span><span class="s3">come</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span><span class="s3">To that big rock candy mountain?"</span> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">So the very next day</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">They hiked away,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The mileposts they were counting</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">But they never arrived</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">At the lemonade tide</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">On the big rock candy mountain</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Chorus:</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">One evening as the sun went down</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the jungle fires were burning,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Down the track came a hobo hiking,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">He said, "Boys, I'm not turning</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">I'm heading for a land that's far away</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Beside the crystal fountain</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">I'll see you all this coming fall</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">In the Big Rock Candy Mountain</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Chorus:</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">In the Big Rock Candy Mountain,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">It's a land that's fair and bright,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The handouts grow on bushes</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And you sleep out every night.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The boxcars all are empty</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the sun shines every day</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">I'm bound to go</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Where there </span><span class="s3">ain't</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">no</span><span class="s3"> snow</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Where the sleet don't fall</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the winds don't blow</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span><span class="s3">In the Big Rock Candy Mountain.</span> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">In the Big Rock Candy Mountain</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">You never change your socks</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And little streams of </span><span class="s3">alkyhol</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Come trickling down the rocks</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">O the shacks all have to tip their hats</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the railway bulls are blind</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">There's a lake of stew</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And ginger ale too</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And you can paddle</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">All around it in a big canoe</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">In the Big Rock Candy Mountain</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span><span class="s3">In the Big Rock Candy Mountain</span> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The cops have wooden legs</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The bulldogs all have rubber teeth</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The box-cars all are empty</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the sun shines every day</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">I'm bound to go</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Where there </span><span class="s3">ain't</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">no</span><span class="s3"> snow</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Where the sleet don't fall</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the winds don't blow</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span><span class="s3">In the Big Rock Candy Mountain."</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">-------------------------------------</span></p><br>Seeya round town, Moscow.<div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div></div></body></html>