Big Rock Candy Mountain

Tim Kitz of Ottawa tells us that if you listen carefully to Harry McClintock's original recording (which is on the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack), McClintock actually is singing about "in the Big Rock Candy Mountains" (plural not singular). "This explains a lot – I could never understand what it's 'in the Big Rock Candy Mountain' (the sun shines every day inside a mountain?). Whereas 'in the Big Rock Mountains' makes perfect sense."

According to RUS, "The boxcars are all empty and the suns shine every day" gets repeated twice (in the 1st verse, "the land that's fair and bright" and again in the 3rd verse, "cops have wooden legs.") But in the Harry McClintock recording, he sings "The farmer’s trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
" in that verse.

 So, the correct 3rd verse should read:

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
The cops have wooden legs
The bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmer's trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
Where the sleet don't fall and the winds don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Moutains