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 that I don't know
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I saw Peter, Paul & Moses playing ring around the roses
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And I'll whup the guy what says it isn't so.


[Verse 1]
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Well, I’m just a lonesome 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 the year of one.
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And that’s about the biggest thing that man has ever done.


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


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


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


[Verse 5]
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Now I was straw boss on the pyramids, and the tower of Babel too.
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I opened up the ocean, let the migrant children through.
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I fought a million battles and I never lost a one.
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And that’s about the biggest thing 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 Limburger cheese.
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And while floatin’ down the bay with Methuselah one day.
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I saw his whiskers floatin’ in the breeze.


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


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


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