Odetta - Great Historical Bum Lyrics

Lyrics Great Historical Bum - Odetta



I was born ten thousand years ago
There ain't nothin' in this world that I don't know
I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing 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 of One
And that's about the biggest thing that man has ever done
I saw Adam and Eve a-driven from the door
I'm the guy that pick the fig leaves that they wore
And from behind the bushes peeping, saw the apple they were eating
And I'll swear that I'm the one that ate the core
Now, I built the Garden of Eden, it was in the year of Two
Joined the Apple Pickers Union, and I always paid my due
I'm the man that signed the contract to raise the Rising 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
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Now, I was straw boss on the pyramids, and the Tower of Babel too
I opened up the ocean, let the migrant 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 A-B-C's
I'm the first one that ate Limburger cheese
And while floating down the bay with Methuselah 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 men has ever done
Well, 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 shooting skeeters down in Tennessee
I was born about ten thousand years ago
There ain't nothin' in this world that I don't know
I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing 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 of One
And that's about the biggest thing Man has ever done



Writer(s): Woody Guthrie


Odetta - The Ultimate Collection
Album The Ultimate Collection
date of release
25-01-2011

1 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
2 Midnight Special
3 Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
4 Gallows Pole
5 Jack O'diamonds
6 Another Man Done Gone
7 Prettiest Train
8 Go Down Sunshine
9 Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
10 Sail Away Ladies
11 Yonder Comes The Blues
12 Lowlands
13 Leavin' This Morning
14 Meeting At The Building
15 How Long Blues
16 Hard, Oh Lord
17 Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down
18 I Know Where I'm Going
19 Take This Hammer
20 Chilly Winds
21 Joshua (Alternate Version)
22 John Riley
23 Ox-Driver Song
24 He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
25 Three Pigs
26 Maybe She Go
27 This Land Is Your Land
28 God's A-Gonna Cut You Down
29 Devilish Mary
30 Hound Dog
31 Oh, Papa
32 Alabama Bound
33 I'm Going Back To the Red Clay Country
34 Joshua
35 Believe I'll Go
36 No More Auction Block for Me
37 Motherless Children
38 God's a - Gonna Cut You Down (Alternate Version)
39 Saro Jane
40 Santy Anno
41 Oh, My Baby
42 All the Pretty Little Horses
43 Weeping Willow Blues
44 Muleskinner Blues
45 Glory, Glory
46 John Henry
47 Gallows Pole (Alternate Version)
48 No More Cane On the Brazos
49 Hogan's Alley
50 Battle Hymn of the Republic
51 If I Had a Hammer
52 Pretty Horses
53 Been in the Pen
54 The Foggy Dew
55 If I Had a Ribbon Bow
56 Bald Headed Woman
57 Pastures of Plenty
58 Shame and Scandal
59 Hold On
60 Deep Blue Sea
61 Poor Little Jesus
62 Easy Rider
63 Deep River
64 Going Home
65 Spiritual Trilogy
66 When I Was A Young Girl
67 I'Ve Been Driving On Bald Mountain / Water Boy
68 Payday At Coal Creek
69 Lass of the Low Country
70 Down On Me
71 Great Historical Bum
72 Dark as a Dungeon
73 Timber
74 Hush Little Baby .
75 The Fox
76 On Top of Old Smokey
77 Jumpin' Judy
78 Ballad for Americans
79 Greensleeves
80 Buked and Scorned




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