SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 234 Set by Allan ' 0. Waith
An American ballad, 'The Big Rock Candy Mountains,' gives a picture of life in a tramp's utopia: 'In the Big Rock Candy Mountains You never change your socks, And the little stream of alcohol Come :deka' down the rocks.
There the brakemen have to tip their hats And the railroad bulls are blind; There's a lake of stew and of whisky too— You can paddle all around them in a big canoe In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.'
A prize of £5 will be awarded for two verses of a similar ballad describing the utopia of any of the following: a poet, a politician, a policeman, a gourmand, a housewife, a civil servant.
Entries, addressed 'Spectator Conipetition No. 234,' 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1, must be received not later than August 17. Results in the Spectator of August 27.
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