BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS - Harry Mac McClintock - 1928
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKk_kPmAk4
HALLELUJAH! I’M A BUM - Harry MAC McClintock - 1928
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uKbIkYGsIg
Good lord, these were hobos? Not even “normal” members of society follow hese rules.
Can you imagine a song with"cigarette trees, alcohol springs and a whiskey lake nowadays?
Hobo’s Meditation by JIMMIE RODGERS (1932)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ_xj3aDjWU
I always told my kids “Big Rock Candy Mountain” was a democRAT song. It was part an parcel of the demcoRAT philosophy of utopia and freeloading. From the Cigarette Trees to the everything else....the singer didn’t earn any of it.