Soundie BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN ('42) - Harry McClintock w Hal Borne & His Orchestra

[@DriveByShouting]

Come back America 🇺🇸

[@jessicabrutsman3251]

This is amazing! Thank you, I've never heard this version before.

[@CreachterZ]

This is how I hope Shoestring is living it up right now!

[@arcadia-ego2951]

What a rich and historic ephemera captured and collected and held for academics. This is now part of my curriculum. Folklore and Folksong are one thing, but this elevates it to new heights. Thank you for allowing this to remain published.

[@chuckyloumemorialfilmsociety]

Thanks for watching!

[@brandtsweet]

How anybody can't appreciate this I don't understand

[@josephcamhi5676]

I love it. Of course the real version of the song is far better. This is a parody of what was a very famous song at the time. Check out the original version. It is such a classic they opened the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou with the real version.

[@Just_Addd_Water]

​@josephcamhi5676 I'm pretty sure Harry McClintock sang the version of big rock candy mountain in O brother where art thou?

[@billybobs841]

Exactly

[@mohnjorrow1990]

I'm 33 and love it

[@ericcartman9935]

because ..... Taylor Swift and Rita Ora ....... FUCKING LOL

[@alanoneill3065]

Hit the Sheriff,,,what a name for a band

[@chivebutter8794]

Fun fact- Harry Mcclintock was a proud Unioner and participated in the 1913 Tucker strike.

[@TheGreenmangrove]

this is a rare Gem .

[@birminghamdepartmentofpubl8313]

One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning, down the track came a hobo hiking and he said boys I’m not turning, I’m headed for a land that’s far away, besides the crystal fountains. So come with me we’ll go and see the big rock candy mountains. In the big rock candy mountains the living there is swell, why we’ll think we’ve never met such gals in the mountains there they dwell. Why they make your life a pleasure, they are your beckon call. Where you sing and play and the grub they pay; that’s the life for me, where the drinking is free in the big rock candy mountains. In the big rock candy mountains, you leave a life of ease. Why the place is filled with cuties, who always drive to please. You never do no walking; you ride and roll in chairs, where the Champaign fountains grows it’s spray and you make pay hay all the live long day in the big rock candy mountains. It was hard to understand what McClintock said at 0:46 so I assumed it was “why we’ll”

[@gunnarthefeisty]

at 0:46 he says "Where Ziegfield", Ziegfield being the writer of the Ziegfield Follies, featuring his "Ziegfield Girls", fashion models of the time.

[@glennsprigg2378]

NO, sorry... He said... "In the mountains there they dwell" 🤠

[@yy19aos]

I never knew they had video of Harry McClintlock

[@jenniferniskanen361]

I want to see this remastered to HD or 4k. Loved this song since I was a child.

[@iamthegreenarrow762]

I kind of like how this looks better than modern

[@drumscholar42]

My father loved this song.

[@WadeRaney-vv5oi]

Excellent 😀

[@traruhsynred3475]

Fantastic!

[@johnmitchelljr]

Great video. Greater song. Thanks for sharing.

[@divyavaahini4531]

One of my favourite songs

[@Aware_of_myshelf]

And to think.. this was only posted 6 years ago! My how technology has changed!

[@hehatemedavis1937]

Ahhh so this must be the explicit version 🤣😂🤣😂🤣💃🏻🏃🏼‍♂️

[@AlastorFan5900]

in case you aren't joking, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKLSqKB-nN2JgLM is the original, explicit version. my favorite version by far too, but that's just personal preference.

[@tarasworld505]

I love it

[@austinnightingale5134]

I want to be there!

[@TheKidKniseBurgh]

Makes me wonder what the other unicorns were gonna do to Charlie if they ever got him to Candy Mountain...

[@kreem-gh6362]

I like this song

[@milascave2]

Mulligan Stew was made by throwing whatever food the group had on hand, mostly canned goods, into a big pot, adding water, and making a big comunal pot of food. Nobody bathed in it, that I know of it.

[@dwong7826]

To throw a little reality-based cold water, “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” is actually an infamous folk song that was sanitized by Harry McClintock. It was not written by McClintock, but only first recorded by him in 1928. According to the book ON THE FLY! HOBO LITERATURE AND SONGS, 1879-1941 edited by Iain McIntyre, the song “emerged in the 1890s” and its authorship is attributed to “Unknown." The song is infamous, because its lyrics were often a narration by a mature male hobo sexual predator, who sings to entice a boy to join him in the fantastic hobo world characterized in the song. Some of the folk lyrics are not suitable for printing here. The same meaning is documented in the Wikipedia article on the song (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain). The lives of hobo’s during the 1890s were often physically and mentally brutal, as the US was suffering from the Panic of 1893, an economic depression that lasted through 1897. The song is cheery in OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU, as the three protagonists have escaped a prison chain gang and venture to recover their lives and seek a treasure. In reality, Jack London’s 1907 memoir, THE ROAD, documents his experiences as a destitute yet vigorous 18-year old hobo in 1894 (available for free: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14658 and kzbin.info/www/bejne/moaXnmShereMfck as an audiobook). THE ROAD is written for readers of all ages, and is an engaging and often, an entertaining narrative. It presents the real-life stark meaning of surviving hunger, cold, and violence as a hobo. London also describes his experience as part of Coxey’s Army, unemployed men who tramped across the US to gather to demonstrate economic conditions in Washington DC; and as a falsely-accused criminal imprisoned in the nightmarish Erie County Penitentiary in Pennsylvania.

[@d.owczarzak6888]

Lighten up !

[@alanoneill3065]

no kidding?

[@alanoneill3065]

apologies,,,that is great research

[@TheKidKniseBurgh]

Yup.

[@timterrell8678]

In an interview Harry McClintock said he did write the song when he was younger in 1895. He said he is the original author of the song and made 2 versions of it.

[@MosTalent]

One evening as the sun went down And the jungle fire was burning, Down the track came a hobo hiking, And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning I'm headed for a land that's far away Besides the crystal fountains So come with me, we'll go and see The Big Rock Candy Mountains In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, There's a land that's fair and bright, Where the handouts grow on bushes And you sleep out every night Where the boxcars all are empty And the sun shines every day On the birds and the bees And the cigarette trees The lemonade springs Where the bluebird sings In the Big Rock Candy Mountains In the Big Rock Candy Mountains All the cops have wooden legs And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs The farmers' trees are full of fruit And the barns are full of hay Oh I'm bound to go Where there ain't no snow Where the rain don't fall The wind don't blow In the Big Rock Candy Mountains In the Big Rock Candy Mountains You never change your socks And the little streams of alcohol Come trickling down the rocks The brakemen have to tip their hats And the railroad bulls are blind There's a lake of stew And of whiskey, too You can paddle all around 'em In a big canoe In the Big Rock Candy Mountains In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, The jails are made of tin And you can walk right out again, As soon as you are in There ain't no short-handled shovels, No axes, saws or picks, I'ma goin' to stay Where you sleep all day, Where they hung the Turk That invented work In the Big Rock Candy Mountains I'll see you all this coming Fall In the Big Rock Candy Mountains" Songwriters: Harry Mcclintock / Sterling Sherwin Big Rock Candy Mountain lyrics © Peermusic Publishing

[@jlconspiracychannel4607]

Jerk*

[@kimusabe9371]

That's the wrong version

[@Wasabialt]

Wrong lyrics.

[@Wasabialt]

KZbin lyrics: One evening as the sun went down And the jungle fire was burning Down the track came a hobo hikin' And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning I'm headed for a land that's far away Beside the crystal fountains So come with me, we'll go and see The Big Rock Candy Mountains In The Big Rock Candy Mountains The living there is well Why Ziegfeld never met such gals In the mountains there they dwell While they make your life of pleasure They are at your beck and call Where you sing and play and grub day hey That's a life for me, where the drinking is free In the Big Rock Candy Mountains In The Big Rock Candy Mountains You lead a life of ease While the place is full of cuties Who always strive to please You never do no walking You ride and roll in chairs Where the champagne fountain Rolls its spray and you make hey hey all the living long day In the Big Rock Candy Mountains -What time shall I call you sir? -That's the way I'd live if I had money!

[@saleemwaheed9956]

Sign me up Brother!

[@jakela671]

Hal Borne's wife, Rose was my wife's real estate partner in LA many years ago. He died before I could meet him.

[@PimpinNProgress]

Why isn't this in fallout?

[@rudolphgilliganb]

There are two versions, a children version and this version

[@dwong7826]

This can't be further from the truth. See the Wikipedia article about the history of this song: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain or my comment posted in to this video.

[@andyroid5028]

@@dwong7826 *If it's Wikipedia, then it MUST be true! 🙄*

[@Paladin_Green]

2:09 Spider splicer

[@colasticc3033]

never let go lol.

[@johnnyp8979]

❤️ 👍...!

[@turnerdadonofalldonz8286]

Let's make it happen

[@ericdavid199]

Why were the women so hot back in these times?

[@schoolsout901]

Because vanity and pride in ones appearance where virtues

[@waldowaggins1330]

schoolsout901 what do you mean were

[@stevenroberts9097]

IKR take me back in time

[@cannonhomevideos9102]

Because they took better care of themselves back then.

[@babycoolkid1541]

they literally look the same as modern women just different hair lmao

[@speedysteve9121]

Early MTV video.

[@bartoszprochnicki7198]

[@pedrot.9569]

Hit the sheriff!

[@aidenbutcher5730]

hi

[@Beanthread]

Music video

[@ffrederickskitty4607]

!!!

[@richard84738]

Intro of the song sounds like a major groomer alert. Some boys are camping and a hobo comes by and wants them to go with him to a place where there's booze, sex, and no authority figures to stop him? No thanks creep! 😂

[@Burnthealphabetpeople]

Groomers didn’t exist back then

[@Burnthealphabetpeople]

Btw boys don’t always mean children I call my friends my boys and where all adults

[@megarigged]

​@@Burnthealphabetpeople Oh, they did. They REALLY did. In fact, a certain unpublished verse proves it...

[@tekuwheeler3548]

Bro this encourages my womanizing and alcoholism hahahaha

[@22foozer]

must be the male fantasy version?

[@leonardoconstantino1540]

Sesh

[@dannymckenzie8329]

Could easily be in fallout

[@antoniod]

But that's not the same bloody song!

[@milascave2]

The old songs have a lot of variations.

[@toothfairy10133]

Steve Burstein It's the original.

[@ezakustam]

@@toothfairy10133 Definitely not. He did the more famous version fourteen years before this, and the song has a much longer history than that, apparently.

[@OfficialFriendzone]

This was before the Holocaust.

[@imknotyou]

no

[@FraggleFoot]

Far from the best version

[@-juicyjayt]

this is fantastic 😂

[@mitchdiamond7490]

Wonderful!

[@chuckyloumemorialfilmsociety]

Many thanks!