"The Big Rock Candy Mountains", first recorded and copyrighted by Harry McClintock in 1928,[3] is a country folk song about a hobo's idea of paradise, a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne.

McClintock said that he wrote the song in 1895, based on tales from his youth hoboing through the United States while working for the railroad as a brakeman.

[2] Victor Talking Machine Company released the single on November 16, 1928, with the artist name "Mac (Harry McClintock)".

The most famous version has this 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.

[9] A folk version of the song is included in the Gordon "Inferno" Collection in the Library of Congress, under the title "The Appleknocker's Lament".

[10] A cluster of brightly colored hills just north of Marysvale, Utah, near the Fishlake National Forest, is named the "Big Rock Candy Mountain".