HAYWIRE MAC
(1882–1957)
HAYWIRE MAC (b. Harry Kirby McClintock, Knoxville, Tenn., October 8, 1882–April 24, 1957) Haywire Mac , a SINGER/SONGWRITER/union organizer best remembered for writing The Big Rock Candy Mountain, was a real hobo who in later life became a professional one, glorifying the life of cowboys and migrant workers of the West. He was born and raised in a middle-class home where he learned to play GUITAR as a youth. At age fourteen he left home to join a traveling show, working his way to New Orleans…