"Big Rock Candy Mountain" (Tracy Newman on "What's New" 1965)

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  • Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
  • I learned this from listening to Burl Ives records, but I don't know where I got these verse lyrics... I clearly left out some important ones, like how on the Big Rock Candy Mountain "all the cops have wooden legs," and how there are "cigarette trees," etc. It's all about a hobo's dreamland. Where you don't have to work cuz everything is free and right out there for the taking. The song was first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928. The song is now in the public domain.

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  • @Mr9Guns
    @Mr9Guns 4 года назад +63

    The beauty of folk music is you can always change the words and tune around and it's always new but still has a connection to the past.

  • @tracynewman3256
    @tracynewman3256  Год назад +42

    Oh, the big rock candy mountain
    Is the vagabond's delight
    Where the hand-outs grow on bushes
    And the stars shine every night
    Where the grass is always greener
    And the sun shines everyday
    Oh I long to be, where you're always free
    To do what you please, like the birds and the bees
    On the big rock candy mountain
    On the big rock candy mountain
    No one tells you what to do
    You can stay up each and every night
    And sleep the whole day through
    Working is against the law
    Your time is all your own
    You can sing very loud, you can fly through the clouds
    Every wish on your mind comes true you will find
    On the big rock candy mountain
    On the big rock candy mountain
    You never can grow old
    And since no germs have found this place
    You can never catch a cold
    You'll never get a cavity, no matter what you eat
    There's peppermint swings and a chocolate spring
    A mountain of cake and a lemonade lake
    On the big rock candy mountain
    Oh, the big rock candy mountain
    That's where I long to be
    And every time I think of it
    Well, it sounds just right for me
    I've climbed the highest mountain
    I've searched most everywhere
    I've wandered in vain, but by now it's plain
    Though I see it in my dreams, there's no place it seems
    Like the big rock candy mountain

    • @kimwexlerfeetpics
      @kimwexlerfeetpics Год назад +5

      Oh my god I'm so glad you're sill active! I love you Tracy Newman!

    • @aidanrandall7438
      @aidanrandall7438 2 месяца назад

      did you ever do an album with this song

    • @TracyNewmanOfficial
      @TracyNewmanOfficial 2 месяца назад

      @@aidanrandall7438 No. Thank for asking, though. I have six albums out - 3 for children (under Tracy Newman) and 3 for grown-ups (under Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements.) They are mostly my own songs though. Very few covers. I'm on all the usual platforms.

  • @jjj87484
    @jjj87484 4 года назад +28

    Tracey Newman, you are a gem. Love this version.

  • @Michael-wy2iz
    @Michael-wy2iz 3 года назад +5

    Early PBS. I loved it and Tracy. We are the same age. Still kicking at 78.

  • @GlennOchs
    @GlennOchs 11 месяцев назад +5

    I remember seeing some episodes of this early PBS childrens programming at age 9. I was too young for the weavers or burl ives but I distinctly remember Pete and Tracy. In fact I had long held memories of Pete doing these songs on these sets and now I know it was Tracy. My first crush on a Newman

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  11 месяцев назад

      Thank you, Glenn! Who was your other Newman crush?

  • @THE______TRUTH
    @THE______TRUTH 10 месяцев назад +4

    You know every time I hear this song somebody has changed the words slightly and I love that. It makes it seem like it truly is an individuals fantasy land because its tailored to the person singing and their desires.

  • @trwagner1
    @trwagner1 3 года назад +4

    That's because the big candy mountain is always in front of you! Your freedom is the time is your own, the opportunity is yours. You won't grow old when opportunity to do what your freedom avails you is about you no matter what mountain is in front of you as long as you chip away at that mountain and never give up!

  • @jameshuston9589
    @jameshuston9589 3 года назад +7

    I know the original,...l kinda like Tracy's version. Reminds me of kindergarten. Thank you, Tracy.

  • @RedcoatsReturn
    @RedcoatsReturn 5 лет назад +14

    I love this girl!

  • @lunzie01
    @lunzie01 3 месяца назад +2

    I just discovered this channel! (And I've never heard these lyrics before.)

  • @Eid_Ali
    @Eid_Ali 6 месяцев назад +2

    Nice song, cheerful spirit of the singer :) It's good I found this channel.

  • @snitra.
    @snitra. Год назад +2

    Amazing, Wanna go to big rock candy mountains !!!

  • @haimo14228
    @haimo14228 2 года назад +11

    Such a pretty voice.

  • @mng519
    @mng519 6 месяцев назад +2

    HEY! A different version of this WONDERFUL SONG! I LOVE BOTH!!! SUBSCRIBED!

  • @LadyBGoode-gr8wm
    @LadyBGoode-gr8wm 10 месяцев назад +1

    You are too cute! I am so glad the comments are turned on for this one. I was only 3 years old in 1965. But I remember a lot of the folk music from the 1960s. I miss also the way people talked back then. You have that vintage accent from that era. Good times.

  • @geraldthebusdriver3491
    @geraldthebusdriver3491 2 года назад +3

    I love this 😍😍😍she's so sweet and cute with a wonderful voice

  • @socrateos
    @socrateos 3 года назад +5

    I am definitely in love.

  • @elmerlarimer9026
    @elmerlarimer9026 2 года назад +2

    love her she good

  • @Phantomsbreath
    @Phantomsbreath 5 лет назад +66

    Man, this is a REALLY sanitized version. But it's certainly in the spirit of the original.

    • @mungox1
      @mungox1 3 года назад +1

      no punks here

    • @lucydavie7688
      @lucydavie7688 2 года назад +5

      Where’s the alcohol streams and cigarette trees?

    • @fredrickaappletree3402
      @fredrickaappletree3402 2 года назад +2

      @@lucydavie7688 ☺️ probably removed for kids to listen to or something

    • @drakerude2987
      @drakerude2987 2 года назад

      In a way it's even more Radical than some of the original, or equally as radical with different flavor.

    • @drakerude2987
      @drakerude2987 2 года назад

      @@mungox1 Punk is everywhere that Austerity once was.
      And one day when I'm old FolkPunk will be part of the living soul of Folk just as any other music of the Folks is. :D

  • @k8nyonyoutube487
    @k8nyonyoutube487 2 года назад +4

    You really have a beautiful voice. Thank you for your song.

  • @kilaniraouf3032
    @kilaniraouf3032 Год назад +2

    Tracy ,sweet heart. You are talented and sing with feeling. Wish listen to Woody Guthrie s songs .Please do it for me .Thanks kisses 😍 ❤️ 👍

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  Год назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/9QcDjquuKUA/видео.html
      I think that's the only other one I did back then! Thanks for watching, Kilani!

  • @datapro007
    @datapro007 2 года назад +7

    Nice rendition Tracy, thanks. Yes, the original recording by Harry was the sanitized version of the lyrics, if you can believe that. He describes it in an interview you can find here on RUclips. There was nothing genteel about the hobo jungle. I fully understand you were playing to a different audience.

  • @elmerlarimer9026
    @elmerlarimer9026 2 года назад +2

    love her

  • @Conjure_999
    @Conjure_999 2 месяца назад +1

    This was just super cute! 🫶🏼

  • @francisconsole3892
    @francisconsole3892 Год назад +1

    what a talented sweetheart

  • @AnthonyMonaghan
    @AnthonyMonaghan 4 года назад +4

    We studied this in English at high school along with the novel "Autobiography Of A Supertramp". Love your version Tracy.

  • @sharonlaforme2964
    @sharonlaforme2964 4 года назад +1

    I love that lady she's the bestest lady ever is she the best singer

  • @elmerlarimer9026
    @elmerlarimer9026 Год назад +1

    love her she good siunger

  • @martinshields5673
    @martinshields5673 10 месяцев назад +1

    outstanding.

  • @DaturaReapicusJones
    @DaturaReapicusJones 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks for this, reminds me of Grandma

  • @wilfdarr
    @wilfdarr 2 года назад +2

    I came looking for the kids song, this is far darker...😈

  • @RonaldVaughan
    @RonaldVaughan 2 года назад +3

    Good version!

  • @GeneTrujillo
    @GeneTrujillo 4 года назад

    Treasure! So glad these are getting a wide audience now.

  • @clarkbrady2786
    @clarkbrady2786 9 месяцев назад +1

    I love it❤

  • @Songtextpoetin
    @Songtextpoetin 5 лет назад +9

    I love your videos. The quality really is amazing.

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  5 лет назад +7

      Thank you! I agree. I had to pay to have them transferred to DVD a few years back... VCR tapes were languishing in a library in Brooklyn!

  • @dannywillisukulelemusic1757
    @dannywillisukulelemusic1757 2 года назад +4

    I don't now where Tracy got this lyric from , but if I ever perform this song, it's the version I would use, rather than the hobo version. A song with a pretty melody and a lyric about a place where you don;'t have to work, you don't need money, you can eat strawberry shortcake and never get fat or get cavities, and can sing and play music all the time?!? This is like Willy Wonka's factory minus the cruel practical jokes.

    • @peterlewis6820
      @peterlewis6820 Год назад

      im a Brit and karioked it in Galveston and i made a right mess as i though it would be Burls version.

  • @johnfrancis2215
    @johnfrancis2215 4 года назад +1

    Good old woodie Guthrie (did I spell that right) always enjoyed his songs, well done Tracy a great rendition, greetings from Yorkshire England lol

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  4 года назад +1

      I agree, but Woody didn't write this song... he wrote everything else though!

  • @OgYokYok
    @OgYokYok 5 лет назад +10

    I would love to see you revisit some of these old hobo and wobbly songs along with some storytelling to go along with it. Essentially this, just not aimed at children and more in depth.

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  5 лет назад +14

      Thanks, Charlie. That is my plan, but I'm a little slow getting it off the ground. I'm about to release my 3rd CD for kids... on June 22nd. (My website for kid's CDs is runalonghome.com) Then, I hope to start making videos exactly like you just described, for kids and adults.

  • @DrAnarchy69
    @DrAnarchy69 7 месяцев назад +1

    As an IWW member, this song really feels like something our membership would have sung (well the original version at least). The Big Rock Candy Mountains hasn’t been discovered yet because we ourselves must create the conditions for the mountains to form
    Edit: turns out Harry McClintock was a Wobbly

  • @JLKDOOM
    @JLKDOOM 2 года назад +1

    Trying not to get lost in those eyes

  • @carlosm.devasconcelllos3939
    @carlosm.devasconcelllos3939 4 года назад +3

    Lovely girl.

  • @royswansborough5637
    @royswansborough5637 2 года назад

    Wonderful stuff.

  • @DanDDirges
    @DanDDirges 5 лет назад +4

    Such a classic and yes a bit different than the Oh Brother Where Art Thou version but I love they way you sang and played it!

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  5 лет назад +1

      I learned this from the Burl Ives record, but I don't think I'm singing his version here! I don't know where I got this version.

  • @rdggriffin6321
    @rdggriffin6321 3 года назад +5

    Love this rendition!

  • @jason98684
    @jason98684 Год назад +1

    McClintock's family still has rights to his song, but the children's version is public domain.

  • @dejaliloquy
    @dejaliloquy 3 года назад +1

    what a darling, love her sweet essence

  • @LadyFinger_
    @LadyFinger_ 11 месяцев назад

    this is the clearest audio from 1965 I've ever heard

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  11 месяцев назад

      I did a number of these... many are on my channel. They are all clear like this. I agree.

  • @cheeksonfleek5996
    @cheeksonfleek5996 4 года назад +1

    play it at my funeral

  • @OnePiece-nl2hf
    @OnePiece-nl2hf 4 года назад +1

    Très rafraîchissante et bucolique

  • @flyrog07
    @flyrog07 2 года назад +1

    Such a Babeorama.

  • @mr.esmakebelieve3885
    @mr.esmakebelieve3885 4 года назад +6

    What a treasure you are. I’ve discovered these videos when looking for content to use for my online distance learning elementary music classroom. I’ve shared them with my students. Just saw ‘Fire Up That Weed’ - hilarious! I appreciate these oldies and enjoyed the ‘newer’ one. Hope you are well. Howdy from San Antonio, Tx!

  • @Thestephouse1
    @Thestephouse1 3 года назад +1

  • @drakerude2987
    @drakerude2987 2 года назад +1

    The lyrics came from the Spirit.

  • @fredflintstone1547
    @fredflintstone1547 3 года назад +1

    hey, this version has a nice flavor to it

  • @terryjarrett548
    @terryjarrett548 11 месяцев назад +1

    I like the original

  • @williampennjr.4448
    @williampennjr.4448 5 месяцев назад +1

    How come every time I hear this song it has different lyrics?

  • @ErgonBill
    @ErgonBill 3 года назад +3

    Never heard this song before. Looking forward to hearing alt. versions. Do you still have that hat Tracy?

  • @robertcolmorgen2467
    @robertcolmorgen2467 4 года назад +2

    I was only 1 when you were performing this music. Who were your influences back then. I am exploring new styles and genres. Thanks

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  4 года назад +2

      My main influence for this song was Burl Ives. He did an album for children that was very popular back then. This is his version.

  • @patriciagoff7296
    @patriciagoff7296 6 лет назад +5

    That was wonderful! For some different lyrics you should look up Fretkillr or Fretkillrlivs I can't remember exactly. His version definitely goes down a different path! Thanks for sharing your talent.

    • @TracyNewmanOfficial
      @TracyNewmanOfficial 6 лет назад

      I learned this version from a Burl Ives record way back then. Thank you for listening. I'll listen to Fretkillrlivs!

    • @BobBelson
      @BobBelson Год назад

      Harry Mc Clintock

  • @Heff-Curry
    @Heff-Curry 2 месяца назад

    Your version of this song is so perfect. Do you think you can upload it to spotify? There is a very small amount of your songs on the app I am not sure if its actually your account

    • @TracyNewmanOfficial
      @TracyNewmanOfficial 2 месяца назад +1

      Thank you, Matthew. The songs of mine on Spotify that I know about are from either my 3 CDs for kids under the name Tracy Newman, or my 3 CDs for grown-ups under the name Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements. I never actually recorded Big Rock Candy Mountain, I'm sorry to say. I really should have done a CD of old favorite folk songs, but never did. Yet.

  • @irlaaika
    @irlaaika Год назад +1

    hello, i'm in college and learning english. I am engaged in translating the translation of various campfire songs into my native language in order to better understand the culture of wandering people. Could you please write the lyrics for easier translation

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  Год назад +1

      Irlaai - I just posted the lyrics below. Good luck!

  • @Jayisafunkydude
    @Jayisafunkydude 3 года назад +2

    the big rock candy mountain
    is a vagabonds delight
    where the handouts grow on bushes
    and the stars shine every night
    where the grass is always greener
    and the sun shines every day
    oh I long to be
    where you're always free
    to do as you please
    like the birds and bees
    on the big rock candy mountain
    on the big rock candy mountain
    no one tells you what to do
    you can stay up each and every night
    and sleep the whole day through
    working is against the law
    your time is all your own
    you can sing very loud
    you can fly through the clouds
    every wish on your mind
    comes true you will find
    on the big rock candy mountain
    on the big rock candy mountain
    you never can grow old
    and since no germs have found this place
    you can never catch a cold
    you'll never get a cavity
    no matter what you eat
    there's peppermint springs
    and chocolate swings
    a mountain of cake
    and a lemonade lake
    on the big rock candy mountain
    on the big rock candy mountain
    that's where I long to be
    and every time I think of it
    it sounds just right for me
    I've climbed the highest mountain
    I've searched almost everywhere
    I've wandered in vain
    but by now it's plain
    though I see it in my dreams
    there is no place it seems
    like the big rock candy mountain

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  3 года назад +1

      Big Foot: You added lyrics? Your own? Or are these words you sang at camp or something?

  • @johnnyford9839
    @johnnyford9839 9 месяцев назад

    It's in San Francisco

  • @mspiiipierce1324
    @mspiiipierce1324 4 года назад +1

    Oh brother where art tho?.. this is cool..i love your singing!..

  • @jakethesavage6509
    @jakethesavage6509 3 года назад +2

    Anyone know the chords she is playing on guitar??

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  3 года назад +2

      For starters, my capo is in the 2nd fret, and I'm playing in the key of A, but in G position. So, in G position, the chords I'm playing are G, C, D, and an Ami thrown in there somewhere. That part where I'm quickly going back and forth between two chords is just G to C and back, a few times. Let me know if this helps you. You can easily look this up. Big Rock Candy Mountain Lyrics and chords Burl Ives version. tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/burl-ives/big-rock-candy-mountain-chords-1120503 He gives it to you in the key of C, which might be better for you. Enjoy! Let me know how you do!

    • @jakethesavage6509
      @jakethesavage6509 3 года назад +1

      @@tracynewman3256 hey Tracy! I’m a big fan of your music! I would love to discuss music with you tried to message you on your Instagram no reply.. but yes I will try it and let you know how it goes!

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  2 года назад +2

      @@jakethesavage6509 Jake - I'm never personally on Instagram. Someone else handles it now and then. I'm on Facebook though.

  • @douggokellam
    @douggokellam 2 года назад +1

    The neutered version.

  • @trwagner1
    @trwagner1 3 года назад +2

    The song and lyrics have long bee known to be credited to from
    Harry McClintock

  • @starchild7843
    @starchild7843 2 года назад +2

    Was this a children's show of some type maybe to teach music? If so then they should of had us watch this in our music class when I was growing up instead of having the teacher that never really taught us much just square dancing and musical chairs. Also she was a very strict teacher if we messed up one time in square dancing, she would punish us by embarrassing the crap out of us by saying how lousy we are and the others would laugh, instead of being kind and nurturing us to do better. I really dreaded that class I hated it. Alot of us did the class was once a week on a Friday and instead looking forward to a Friday, I would get nervous and really didn't want to go to music class anymore. Thankfully the next year which was 3rd grade, they replaced her with a kinder nurturing teacher. But that class wasn't on Fridays anymore 3rd graders was on Wednesday, and we all looked forward to hump day! Lol

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  2 года назад +1

      It was six episodes I did for children in an existing series called "What's New" - also for kids. I'm so glad you're enjoying it, and sorry your intro to music was so traumatic!

  • @robertslugg8361
    @robertslugg8361 2 года назад

    Sounds like Portland or Seattle these days. :(

  • @irenedavo3768
    @irenedavo3768 11 месяцев назад

    53 K views

  • @nataliep.9047
    @nataliep.9047 11 дней назад

    She was so cute and had such a lovely style. It's heartbreaking to know that sure turned out to be such a big liberal.

  • @BobBelson
    @BobBelson Год назад +1

    Lol. Watered down version of the original which has ..lets say a more conventional hobos version of that sane mountain😆

  • @venivedivici5669
    @venivedivici5669 2 года назад

    Yo dawg where you at?

  • @IamsTokiWartooth
    @IamsTokiWartooth Год назад

    sounds like the land of the dead

  • @coburna5
    @coburna5 Месяц назад

    Congrats. You just made the all time worst rendition of this song!

  • @macdunlap6257
    @macdunlap6257 4 года назад

    should be bernie sanders theme song. 'ode to a lazy socialist'

    • @FrightF
      @FrightF 4 года назад

      Up yours buddy

    • @macdunlap6257
      @macdunlap6257 4 года назад

      @@FrightF awwww poor no talent berniebro gonna cry? nope your not gettin any free shit

    • @macdunlap6257
      @macdunlap6257 4 года назад

      @Bill Overbeck 1, education is not a right per SCOTUS. 2, nothing is 'free' if government is involved. 3, college handed out like candy is not appreciated. perfect example is free college in Georgia as they have most going one year and then drop out wasting tax dollars ahereas those who pay to go have a lot lower drop out rate.
      I worked 50hrs plus for all the years in undergrad and after and I fully appreciate what I earned.

  • @jimmyashtray7665
    @jimmyashtray7665 3 года назад

    Jeez, women were boring back then too eh?

  • @tysonmayberry1208
    @tysonmayberry1208 2 года назад +1

    this is pitiful

  • @human37
    @human37 4 года назад

    Terrible version - great singer.... What are you going to do?

  • @Etherionix
    @Etherionix 9 месяцев назад +1

    The lyrics were likely scrubbed to be POLITICALLY CORRECT.

    • @tracynewman3256
      @tracynewman3256  9 месяцев назад

      They were scrubbed for children, I think. A long, long time ago. I did this show in 1965.