Born About Six Thousand Years Ago

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The split chords show the movement 
between different chords which give 
this song its
character play them as a single bass
 note- for example

D7  D7/E D7/F# G   strum D7, play E 
F# on the 6th string, strum G

[Introduction]

G  A7  D7  G

[Verse 1]
G                    C           
I was born about six thousand 
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years ago [ Fill1 ]
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They ain't nothin' in  this 
        A7/B A7/C#   D7
world that I    don't   know
      G                   G7      
I saw Old King Pharaoh's daughter 
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find Lit -tle Moses on  the  water
          D7                       
And I can whip the man that says it
 D7/E D7/F# G
 is - n't   so

[Verse 2]
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I saw Noah when he  built that 
       G
famous ark [ Fill1 ]
G                 G/B G/Bb A7  
I slipped into it one      
       A7/B A7/C# D7  D7/C D7/B
night when it   got   dark
D7/A  G                   G7     
I saw Jonah swallowed by the 
  G7/A G7/B C                C/B 
whale,          and I pulled the 
 C/Bb A7
li - on's tail
      D7                          
I can whip the man that says it   
D7/E D7/F# G
is - n't   so

[Chorus]
G                       G/B G/Bb 
I'm an educated man, to get more 
A7                     D7
sense within my head I plan  [ Fill2
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Well, I've been on earth so long, 
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and  I    used to sing a lit -tle 
C/Bb A7
song
      D7                     D7/E 
While all of them old timers took 
D7/F# G
their stand

[Instrumental]

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[Verse 3]
G                    C           
Queen Elizabeth fell dead in love
      G
 with me, (hee, hee, she did)
G                 A7          
We was married in Mil-wauk-ee 
A7/B A7/C# D7
sec- ret - ly
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Then I took her out and shook her, 
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and  I    went with General  Hooker
   D7                      
To fight mosquitoes down in 
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Tenn-ess-  ee.

[Verse 4]
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I taught Solomon his little A B C's 
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(smart feller)
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And through all his books, I   
G/Bb A7              D7
tutored him with ease
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Then I sailed out on the bay with 
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Methuselah one  day
      D7                     
And I played with his flowing 
          D7/E D7/F# G
whiskers in   the   breeze

[Chorus]
G                       G/B G/Bb 
I'm an educated man, to get more 
A7                     D7
sense within my head I plan [ Fill2 
]
           G                G7    
Well, I've been on earth so long, 
G7/A G7/B C              C/B 
and  I    used to sing a lit -tle 
C/Bb A7
song
      D7                     D7/E 
While all of them old timers took 
D7/F# G
their stand


[Instrumental]

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[Verse 5]
G                        C       
I seen old Satan when he searched
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 that Garden o'er, (old bugger)
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Saw Adam and Eve driven from 
A7/B  D7
the   door
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When the apples they were eating, 
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from the bushes I was a-peeping
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I can prove it for I'm  the man 
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that ate  the   core

[Verse 6]
G                    C           
I saw Cain when he killed Abel 
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with a spade  [ Fill1 ]
G                   G/B A7      
And I know the game was poker 
        D7
that they played
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I was hid behind the shrub when he 
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slapped him with that club
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Poor old Abel caught him a-cheatin'
     D7/E D7/F# G
 and now  he's  dead

[Chorus]

G                       G/B G/Bb 
I'm an educated man, to get more 
A7                     D7
sense within my head I plan  [ Fill2
 ]
           G                G7    
Well, I've been on earth so long, 
G7/A G7/B C              C/B 
and  I    used to sing a lit -tle 
C/Bb A7
song
      D7                     D7/E 
While all of them old timers took 
D7/F# G
their stand