Woody Guthrie - The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done Lyrics

Lyrics The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done - Woody Guthrie



(The Great Historical Bum)
I′m just a lonesome traveler, The Great Historical Bum.
Highly educated from history I have come.
I built the Rock of Ages, 'twas in the Year of One
And that was about the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I worked in the Garden of Eden, that was the year of two,
Joined the apple pickers union, I always paid my due;
I′m the man that signed the contract to raise the rising sun,
And that was about the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I was straw boss on the Pyramids, 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 was about the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I beat the daring Roman, I beat the daring Turk,
Defeated Nero's army with thirty minutes work,
I fought the greatest leaders and I licked them everyone
And that was about the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I stopped old Caesar's Romans, and I stopped the Kubla Khan;
I took but half an hour′s work to beat the Pharaoh′s bands;
I knocked old Kaiser Bill flat, then I dumped the bloody Huns,
And that's about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I was in the Revolution when we set the country free;
Me and a couple of Indians that dumped the Boston tea;
We won the battle at Valley Forge, the battle of Bully Run;
And that was about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
Next, we won the slavery war, some other folks and me,
And every slave from sea to sea was all turned loose by me.
I divorced old Madam slavery, and I wed this freedom dame.
And that′s about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
And then I took to farming on the great midwestern plain,
The dust it blowed a hundred years, but never come a rain'
Well, me and a million other fellas left there on the run
And that was about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I clumb the rocky canyon where the Columbia River rolls,
Seen the salmon leaping the rapids and the falls
The big Grand Coulee Dam in the state of Washington
Is just about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
There′s a building in New York that you call the Empire State
I rode the rods to 'Frisco to walk the Golden Gate
I′ve seen every foot of film that Hollywood has run
But Coulee is the biggest thing that man has ever done.
Three times the size of Boulder or the highest pyramid
Makes the Tower of Babel a plaything for a kid
From the rising of the river to the setting of the sun
The Coulee is the biggest thing that man has ever done.
There was a man across the ocean, I guess you knew him well,
His name was Adolf Hitler, goddam his soul to hell;
We kicked him in the panzers and put him on the run,
And that was about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I'm living with my freedom wife in this big land we built;
It takes all forty eight States for me to spread my quilt.
Our kids are several millions now; they run from sun to sun.
And that's about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I built mines and mills and factories to run for Uncle Sam;
I turned th′ ploughs and wheels to feed my soldiers in your lands;
This Nazi job′s a tough 'un, it′ll take us everyone,
'Cause this is about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
There′s warehouse guys and teamsters and guys that skin the cats
Guys that run my steel mill, my furnace and my blast
We'll stop the Axis rattlesnakes and thieves of old Nippon
And that will be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I′d better quit my talking, 'cause I told you all I know,
But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go,
The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done
That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I better quit my talking now; I told you all I know,
But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go,
I′m older than your old folks, and I′m younger than the young,
And I'm about the biggest thing that man has ever done.



Writer(s): Woody Guthrie


Woody Guthrie - Iconic Folk Legends
Album Iconic Folk Legends
date of release
05-06-2012

1 Chain Around My Leg
2 Boll Weevil Song
3 Pick A Bale Of Cotton
4 California Blues
5 Red River
6 Rock Me Momma
7 Chain Gang Special
8 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
9 This Land is Your Land
10 Silver Dagger
11 Blowin' Down This Road
12 House of the Rising Sun
13 Buffalo Skinners
14 Cumberland Gap
15 Wildwood Flower
16 Do Re Mi
17 Plaisir D'amour
18 Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad
19 Banks of the Ohio
20 Grand Coulee Dam
21 Barbara Allen
22 Hard Travelin'
23 Fare Thee Well
24 Hard, Ain't It Hard
25 Water Boy
26 I Ain't Got No Home
27 Sail Away Ladies
28 John Henry
29 Old Blue
30 More Pretty Girls Than One
31 Wagoner's Lad
32 Poor Boy
33 Island In the Sun
34 Pretty Boy Floyd
35 Don't Weep After Me
36 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
37 Every Night
38 Talking Dust Bowl Blues
39 Donna Donna
40 Vigilante Man
41 Young Blood
42 Worried Man Blues
43 Once I Knew a Pretty Girl
44 Jesse James
45 Kitty
46 East Virginia
47 Dust Bowl Blues
48 All My Trials
49 Foggy Mountain Top
50 Annie Had a Baby
51 The Great Dust Storm
52 Engine 143
53 Hobo's Lullaby
54 Dark As a Dungeon
55 Little Darling
56 John Riley
57 Told My Captain
58 Stackolee
59 Lonesome Road
60 The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
61 Mary Hamilton
62 Ramblin' Round
63 The Cherry Tree Carol
64 When the Yanks Go Marching In
65 New York Town
66 Girl of Constant Sorrow
67 Dust Bowl Refugee
68 What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby
69 Talking Fishing Blues
70 Henry Martin
71 Man Smart, Woman Smarter
72 Dusty Old Dust
73 Pal of Mine
74 Bed On the Floor
75 Silkie
76 Scarlet Ribbons
77 New Found Land
78 Careless Love
79 Rake And Rambling Boy
80 Sowing On the Mountain
81 The Trees They Do Grow High
82 Oh Freedom
83 I Ride an Old Paint
84 Railroad Boy
85 Lowlands
86 I Gave My Love a Cherry
87 Dust Pneumonia Blues
88 O What a Beautiful City
89 Dust Storm Disaster
90 So Soon in the Morning
91 Columbus Stockade
92 The Lily of the West




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