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