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