(The Historical Bum)
I'm just a lonesome traveler, The Historical Bum. educated from 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 pickers union, I always my due; I'm the man that signed the 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 up the ocean let the migrant children through, I fought a million and I never lost a one, And that was about the thing that man had ever done.
I beat the daring Roman, I the daring Turk, Defeated Nero's with thirty minutes work, I fought the greatest and I licked them everyone And that was about the biggest thing that man had done.
I old Caesar's Romans, and I stopped the Kubla Khan; I but half an hour's work to beat the Pharaoh's bands; I old Kaiser Bill flat, then I dumped the bloody Huns, And that's about the biggest thing man has ever done.
I was in the Revolution when we set the free; Me and a couple of that 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 about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
And then I took to on the great midwestern plain, The dust it blowed a hundred years, but come a rain' Well, me and a million other fellas left on the run And that was about the biggest thing man has ever done.
I clumb the rocky canyon where the River rolls, Seen the salmon the rapids and the falls The big Grand Dam in the state of Washington Is about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
There's a in New York that you call the Empire State I rode the to 'Frisco to walk the Golden Gate I've seen foot of film that Hollywood has run But Coulee is the thing that man has ever done.
times the size of Boulder or the highest pyramid Makes the of Babel a plaything for a kid the rising of the river to the setting of the sun The Coulee is the biggest thing man has ever done.
There was a man the ocean, I guess you knew him well, His name was Adolf Hitler, goddam his soul to 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 in this 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 about the biggest that man has ever done.
I built mines and mills and to run for Uncle Sam; I turned th' ploughs and wheels to 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 and guys that skin the cats Guys run my steel mill, my furnace and my blast We'll the Axis rattlesnakes and thieves of old Nippon And that be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I'd quit my talking, 'cause 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 better quit my 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.