(The Historical Bum)
I'm just a lonesome traveler, The Great Bum. Highly educated from I have come. I built the of Ages, 'twas in the Year of One And that was the biggest thing that man had ever 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 man had ever done.
I was straw boss on the Pyramids, the Tower of Babel, I opened up the ocean let the 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 Roman, I beat the daring Turk, Nero's army with thirty minutes work, I fought the greatest leaders and I licked them And that was about the biggest thing man had ever done.
I stopped old Romans, and I stopped the Kubla Khan; I but half an hour's work to beat the Pharaoh's bands; I knocked old Kaiser flat, then I dumped the bloody Huns, And that's about the thing that man has ever done.
I was in the Revolution we set the country free; Me and a of Indians that dumped the Boston tea; We won the battle at Valley Forge, the battle of Bully And that was about the biggest thing man has ever done.
Next, we won the slavery war, some other and me, And every from sea to sea was all turned loose by me. I old Madam slavery, and I wed this freedom dame. And that's about the thing that man has ever done.
And then I to farming on the great midwestern plain, The it blowed a hundred years, but never come a rain' Well, me and a million other fellas left on the run And was about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I clumb the rocky canyon where the River rolls, the salmon leaping the rapids and the falls The big Grand Coulee Dam in the state of Is just about the biggest that man has ever done.
There's a building in New York you call the Empire State I the rods to 'Frisco to walk the Golden Gate I've every foot of film that Hollywood has run But is the biggest 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 thing 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 kicked him in the and put him on the run, And that was about the thing that man has ever done.
I'm living with my wife in this big land we built; It takes all eight States 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 mines and mills and factories to run for Uncle Sam; I th' ploughs and wheels to feed my soldiers in your lands; This job's 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 guys that skin the that run my steel mill, my furnace and my blast We'll stop the Axis rattlesnakes and of old Nippon And will 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 are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done That'll be the thing that man has ever done.
I quit my talking now; I told you all I know, But remember, pardner, wherever you may go, I'm older than old folks, and I'm younger than the young, And I'm the biggest thing that man has ever done.