The Great Historical Bum

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I was born about 10,000 years ago
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There ain't nothin' in this world 
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that I don't know
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I saw Peter, Paul & Moses playing 
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ring around the roses
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And I'll whup the guy what says 
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it isn't so.


[Verse 1]
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Well, I’m just a lonesome 
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traveler, a great historical bum.
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Highly educated through history I 
have come.
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I built the rock of ages it was in
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 the year of one.
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And that’s about the biggest thing 
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that man has ever done.


[Verse 2]
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I saw Adam & Eve driven from the 
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door.
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I’m the guy that picked the fig 
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leaves that they wore.
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And from behind the bushes 
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peepin’ saw the apple they was 
eatin’.
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And I swear that I’m the one what
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 ate the core.


[Verse 3]
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Now I built the garden of Eden it 
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was in the year of two.
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Joined the apple pickers union and
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 I always paid my due.
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I’m the man what signed the 
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contract to raise the rising sun.
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And that’s about the biggest thing 
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that man has ever done.


[Verse 4]
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I taught Samson how to use his 
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mighty hand.
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I showed Columbus to this happy 
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land.
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And for Pharaoh’s little kiddies I 
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built all the pyramiddies.
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And to the Sahara carried all the 
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sand.


[Verse 5]
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Now I was straw boss on the 
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pyramids, and the tower of Babel 
too.
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I opened up the ocean, let the 
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migrant children through.
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I fought a million battles and I 
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never lost a one.
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And that’s about the biggest thing 
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that man has ever done.


[Verse 6]
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I taught Solomon his little ABC’s.
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I’m the first one that ate 
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Limburger cheese.
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And while floatin’ down the bay 
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with Methuselah one day.
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I saw his whiskers floatin’ in the 
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breeze.


[Verse 7]
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Now, I fought the revolution that 
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set this country free
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It was me and a couple of Indians 
      D
that dumped the Boston tea
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I won the battle of Valley Forge 
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and the battle of bully run
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And that’s about the biggest thing 
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that man has ever done.


[Verse 8]
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Well, Queen Elizabeth she fell in 
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love with me
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We were married in Milwaukee 
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secretly
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But I got tired and shook her and 
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ran off with General Hooker
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To go shootin’ skeeters down in 
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Tennessee.


[Chorus]
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I was born about 10,000 years ago
A7                                
There ain't nothin' in this world 
             D
that I don't know
      G                           
I saw Peter, Paul & Moses playing 
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ring around the roses
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And I'll whup the guy what says 
        D
it isn't so.