Lyrics - The Bragging Song (the Great Historical Bum) by Chad Mitchell Trio

by
Woody
Guthrie
I was born about ten thousand years ago
There ain't nuthin' in this world that
I don't know
I saw
Peter
Paul and
Moses playin' ring-around-the-roses
And
I'll whup the guy what says it isn't so
Well,
I'm just a lonesome traveler, a great historical bum
Highly educated through history
I have come
I built the
Rock of
Ages, it was in the year oh one
And that's about the biggest thing that
Man has ever done
I saw
Adam and
Eve driven from the door
I'm the guy that picked the figleaves that they wore
And from behind the bushes peepin' saw the apple they was eatin'
And
I swear that
I'm the one that et the core
Now
I built the garden of
Eden, it was in the year oh two
Joined the apple-pickers union and
I always paid my dues
I'm the man that signed the contract to raise the risin' sun
And that's about the biggest thing that
Man has ever done
I taught
Samson how to use his mighty hand
I showed
Columbus to this happy land
And for
Pharaoh's little kiddies
I built all the pyramiddies
And to the
Sahara carried all the sand
Now
I was strawboss on the pyramids and the tower of
Babel too
I opened up the ocean, let the mighty children through
I fought a million battles and
I never lost a one
And that's about the biggest thing that
Man has ever done
I taught
Solomon his little
ABC's
I'm the first one to eat
Limburger cheese
And while floating down the bay with
Methuseleh one day
I saw his whiskers floating in the breeze
Now
I fought the revolution that set this country free
It was me and a couple of
Indians that dumped the
Boston tea
I won the battle of
Valley
Forge and the battle of
Bully
Run
And that's about the biggest thing that
Man has ever done
Now
Queen
Elizabeth she fell in love with me
We were married in
Milwaukee secretly
But
I got tired and shook her and ran off with
General
Hooker
To go shootin' skeeters down in
Tennessee[
Repeat first two verses]

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