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On the Way to the Big Rock Candy Mountain

The Big Rock Candy Mountain is a famous Americana folk song composed by Harry McClintock. It describes the Hobo paradise--a fictional land full of cigarette trees, streams that flow with liquor, cops with wooden legs, and bulldogs with rubber teeth. The song is famous for the following refrain:

 

"Oh, the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees

The soda water fountain

Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings

In that Big Rock Candy Mountain."

 

In my younger years I fancied the hobo life would be a good one. If only I could have found the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

 

Location: somewhere on the road to the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

 

Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished in Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.

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Uploaded on October 1, 2022
Taken on September 25, 2022