Big Rock Candy Mountain Mandolin / Banjo Tab
The Big Rock Candy Mountain Sheet Music For The Mandolin / Banjo in the key of G Major. Suitable for Irish Bouzouki in GDAE tuning. Included are the letter notes. Words and music written by Harry McClintock. The song was used in the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou. The guitar chords are included in the first version.
THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN
The old-time hobo is disappearing from the American scene, the victim of prosperity and technological progress. Where once there were countless thousands of freight train freeloaders roaming the country, cooking mulligan stew in "jungles" beside the tracks, the Wall Street Journal reports only 55 showed up this year for the 59th annual convention of the knights of the road at Britt, Iowa. This is not a sudden development. The forces working toward the extinction of the bindle stiff have been at work for some time. It's been many years, for example, since the phrase "riding the rods" had any meaning. Steel-framed boxcars now universally in use have no exterior bracing. And modern diesel locomotives accelerate so fast leaving the yards that a bum hardly has a chance to catch a grabiron and swing aboard. Besides, unless he stays in one place and maintains a mailing address like a working stiff, he can't collect his welfare check. It takes a lot of character, in today's circum- stances, to remain true to the creed of the professional 'bo, to live in poverty and shirk work. The surviving 55 deserve to find the Big Rock Candy Mountain, with its cigarette trees and lemonade springs.
The old-time hobo is disappearing from the American scene, the victim of prosperity and technological progress. Where once there were countless thousands of freight train freeloaders roaming the country, cooking mulligan stew in "jungles" beside the tracks, the Wall Street Journal reports only 55 showed up this year for the 59th annual convention of the knights of the road at Britt, Iowa. This is not a sudden development. The forces working toward the extinction of the bindle stiff have been at work for some time. It's been many years, for example, since the phrase "riding the rods" had any meaning. Steel-framed boxcars now universally in use have no exterior bracing. And modern diesel locomotives accelerate so fast leaving the yards that a bum hardly has a chance to catch a grabiron and swing aboard. Besides, unless he stays in one place and maintains a mailing address like a working stiff, he can't collect his welfare check. It takes a lot of character, in today's circum- stances, to remain true to the creed of the professional 'bo, to live in poverty and shirk work. The surviving 55 deserve to find the Big Rock Candy Mountain, with its cigarette trees and lemonade springs.
Alternative version below with just one verse and no chords.
In the letter notes version below all the F notes are # [ sharp ] and the c notes are natural. The capital letter notes are the low notes up to the B, and the small letters are the higher notes.
Below is the list of songs [ tabs ] included in the Mandolin ebooks. The price is €7.90
and I'll email the download links after payment. Standard tuning GDAE,
You'll receive every song listed below which is around 800 and a mix of folk, ballads, pop and rock.
Now including a free Beatles ebook of songs and another of Irish rebel songs plus Christmas songs and hymns.
Also included is a 500 page ebook of lyrics and chords for the mandolin / tenor banjo in 3 different easy keys.
Martin
and I'll email the download links after payment. Standard tuning GDAE,
You'll receive every song listed below which is around 800 and a mix of folk, ballads, pop and rock.
Now including a free Beatles ebook of songs and another of Irish rebel songs plus Christmas songs and hymns.
Also included is a 500 page ebook of lyrics and chords for the mandolin / tenor banjo in 3 different easy keys.
Martin
