Wikipedia - "'Big Rock Candy Mountain' is a song about a hobo's idea of paradise - a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne, and similar to the cavalryman's concept of Fiddler's Green. The song describes a hobo's vision of utopia, a place where the 'hens lay soft boiled eggs' and there are 'cigarette trees'."
Wikipedia, PBS, YouTube - Burl Ives, (1)- 1920s
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