Harry McClintock

Harry Kirby McClintock (October 8, 1884 – April 24, 1957), also known as "Haywire Mac", was an American railroad man, radio personality, actor, singer, songwriter, and poet, best known for his song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains".

Quotes

• 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.
  • "The Big Rock Candy Mountains", st. 2

• 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 Big Rock Candy Mountains", st. 3

• I'm a-goin' to stay where you sleep all day
  Where they hung the Turk that invented work
  In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
  • "The Big Rock Candy Mountains", st. 5
  • Variants: 'jerk' for 'Turk'

See also

• O Brother, Where Art Thou?