(The Great Bum)
I'm just a lonesome traveler, The Historical Bum. Highly educated from I have come. I the Rock of Ages, 'twas in the Year of One And that was about the biggest thing man had ever done.
I in the Garden of Eden, that was the year of two, Joined the pickers union, I always paid my due; I'm the man that signed the contract to the rising sun, And that was about the biggest thing that man had done.
I was straw boss on the Pyramids, the of Babel, too; I opened up the ocean let the migrant through, I a million battles and I never lost a one, And was about the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I beat the daring Roman, I the daring Turk, Defeated army with thirty minutes work, I fought the greatest leaders and I licked everyone And that was about the biggest thing man had ever done.
I old Caesar's 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 biggest thing that man has done.
I was in the Revolution when we set the country Me and a of Indians that dumped the Boston tea; We won the battle at Valley Forge, the of Bully Run; And that was about the biggest thing man has ever done.
Next, we won the war, some other folks and me, And every slave from sea to sea was all loose by me. I divorced old Madam slavery, and I wed freedom dame. And that's about the biggest thing that man has done.
And I took to farming on the great midwestern plain, The dust it blowed a years, but never come a rain' Well, me and a million other left there on the run And that was about the biggest thing that man has done.
I the rocky canyon where the Columbia River rolls, Seen the leaping the rapids and the falls The big Coulee Dam in the state of Washington Is just about the biggest thing man has ever done.
a building 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 Tower of a plaything for a kid From the of the river to the setting of the sun The Coulee is the biggest that man has ever done.
There was a man across the ocean, I you knew him well, His name was Adolf Hitler, 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 this big we built; It takes all forty States for me to spread my quilt. Our kids are several millions now; they run sun to sun. And that's about the thing that man has ever done.
I mines and mills and factories to run for Uncle Sam; I turned th' ploughs and wheels to feed my soldiers in your Nazi job's a tough 'un, it'll take us everyone, 'Cause this is the biggest thing that man has ever done.
warehouse guys and teamsters and guys that skin the cats Guys that run my steel mill, my furnace and my We'll stop the Axis 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 please remember, pardner, you may go, The people are building a world, and when the job is done That'll be the biggest that man has ever done.
I better quit my talking now; I you all I know, But please remember, pardner, you may go, I'm than your old folks, and I'm younger than the young, And I'm about the biggest thing man has ever done.