Big Rock Candy Mountain

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Big Rock Candy Mountain took its name from the popular 1928 song by Harry “Haywire Mac” McClintock. The song describes a hobo's vision of utopia, a place where the "hens lay soft boiled eggs" and there are "cigarette trees". The song is also rather ironic and satirical in that it additionally describes mollified versions of things that one wouldn't think should exist in paradise at all, such as police (with wooden legs) and jail bars (made of tin), but sound appealing to someone whose lifestyle runs afoul of the law. (credit Wikipedia)

"Oh the buzzin’ of the bees
In the cigarette trees
Near the soda water fountain
At the lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
On the big rock candy mountain."

geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/geosights/candymtn.htm
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain
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Coordinates:   38°30'31"N   112°16'12"W
This article was last modified 17 years ago