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
Jared
Leto
Compares
Writing
A
Song
To
Having
A
Kid
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
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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