ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS

On a summer day in the month of May,
A burly bum was hiking;
He lay down by the side of a tree,
It was very much to his liking.

On that very same day, in the month of May,
A farmer's son went hiking;
Said the bum to the son, "Come go with me
And I'll show you things to your liking.

"I'll show you the Bees, the Cigarette Trees
And the Soda Water Fountains,
The Lemonade Springs where the Bluebird sings,
And the great Rock Candy Mountains.

"The Gum Drop Heights, where they give away Kites
And marbles made of crystals.
We'll join the band called Dead Shot Dan,
Who wears the swords and pistols."

The boy was gone, about six months long,
And after six months of his travels
He shot back on the S. P. track
And this tale he unravels:

"I've seen no Bees, no Cigarette Trees,
No Soda Water Fountains,
No Gum Drop Heights where they give away Kites,
No big Rock Candy Mountains."

No Lemonade Springs, Where the Bluebird sings,
No Marbles made of Crystals,
And there's no such man as Two-Gun Dan,
Who wears the swords and pistols.

Be—w—a—a—a—re, Be—w—a—a—a—re,
Of the bum they call Big Sandy;
He'll take you to a water tank
And cop a sneak quite handy.

He'll sit you on his peg and he'll make you beg
And call himself your jocker;
He'll black your eye if you can't beg pie,
And call you an "apple knocker."

So all you punks that can't beg lumps
And clothes for old-time Sandy,
Better cop a sneak through Pike's Peak,
And beware of the bum called Sandy.

c1933. "The Wrecks". pp.54-55. Undated. Printed date is no later
than 1933 as there is a later black plush copy with inscription dated
to 1934. That other copy is part of a later larger print edition.

See online here: https://archive.org/details/1933ca-the-wrecks-red-plush-edition-50-copies/page/54/mode/2up?q=candy