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Thread #4571   Message #1610139
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter at work
21-Nov-05 - 08:42 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Big Rock Candy Mountain(s)
Subject: RE: Origins: Big Rock Candy Mountain
The Levy Collection offers these details of still another version, but the sheet music image seems not to be working right now:

Title: That Big Rock-Candy Mountain.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: by Bill Mack.
Publication: New York: Denton & Haskins Music Pub. Co., 1595 Broadway, 1928.
Instrumentation: piano and voice; ukulele
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
First Line: A jungle by the railroad track, where a bunch of bums were "gabbing"
First Line of Chorus: Big rock candy mountain, where the weather's always clear
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: E. Pfeiffer, N.Y.
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Call No.: Box: 157 Item: 035a