Big Rock Candy Mountain

 

At 12 o’clock her carriage rolled in to the town
The Mrs. lightly dropped her baggage to the ground
She didn't know her way around

 

She grasped a letter from the bureau and a man
He made his fortune as a chocolate engineer
And now he needed Suzy near

 

She was joyous, lovely, prosperous and glad
When she glowed with all the love she hadn't had

 

One would be sweet she knew

He’d sweep her off her feet
She flew into his open arms

She waited long for this afterglow

Well Suzy stopped and her face fell, he could tell
For her first and only date had broken her

And added thirty pounds as well

With teardrops in her eyes she turned away to go
The wife returned herself from her to Philadelphia

And her loveliness unknown

 

(Additional corrections made by Andrew Irvine)