Hillbilly’s Journey to Washington

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A bearded hillbilly in overalls travels through rural fields and forests, encountering trains, friends, a pig, rain, campfire food, and finally Washington, D.C. The absurd visual journey plays over Harry McClintock’s folk song “Big Rock Candy Mountain,” turning the song’s fantasy of an idyllic land into a goofy pilgrimage to the U.S. capital. It works as a reaction video about heading toward an improbable destination with cheerful, backwoods confidence. EN: A bearded hillbilly in overalls travels through rural fields and forests, encountering trains, friends, a pig, rain, campfire food, and finally Washington, D.C. The absurd visual journey plays over Harry McClintock’s folk song “Big Rock Candy Mountain,” turning the song’s fantasy of an idyllic land into a goofy pilgrimage to the U.S. capital. It works as a reaction video about heading toward an improbable destination with cheerful, backwoods confidence.

One evening as the sun went down and the gun no fire was burning, down the track came a hold old hikin and he said boys I'm not turning, I'm headed for a land that's far away beside the crystal mountains. So come with me we'll go and see the big rock candy mountains. In the big rock Candy mountains, there's a land that's fair and bright Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night Where the boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees The lemonade springs where the blue bird sings In the big rock candy mountains

♪ Harry McClintock — Big Rock Candy Mountain

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