Big Rock Candy Mountain on a boat in Hot Springs
Channel: eaglexplain
Date: 2015-05-16

Harry McClintock wrote this song during the depression years of the late 20's, USA. It is about the hobo's idea of paradise. 

Back then, thousands of men, who became unemployed after the stock market collapse, left their families to hitchhike on trains across the US to survive.
On cold snowy nights, in parked box cars, they fell asleep hungry and dreamed about cigarette trees and lakes of stew.