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Thread #4571 Message #4236290
Posted By: Lighter
27-Feb-26 - 08:21 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Big Rock Candy Mountain(s)
Subject: RE: Origins: The Big Rock Candy Mountain(s)
Another fragment, likely based on Locke & Tyner>
Bayonne [N.J.] Times (July 24, 1926): "Well, let's taper off...by singing that old time Swedish [sic] ballad of the highway, dealcoholized, of course:
"Says a bum to his chum, Won't you come, come, come To the rock candy moun-tains, To the birds and the bees And the cigarette trees, And the ice cream so-da foun-tains!