(The Great Bum)
I'm just a traveler, The Great Historical Bum. Highly educated from I have come. I built the of Ages, 'twas in the Year of One And that was about the biggest that man had ever done.
I worked in the of Eden, that was the year of two, Joined the apple union, I always paid my due; I'm the man signed 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 never 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 thirty work, I fought the greatest leaders and I licked them And that was about the thing that man had ever done.
I old Caesar's Romans, and I stopped the Kubla Khan; I took but half an work to beat the Pharaoh's bands; I knocked old Kaiser flat, then I dumped the bloody Huns, And about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I was in the when we set the country free; Me and a couple of Indians that dumped the tea; We won the battle at Forge, the battle of Bully Run; And that was about the biggest thing man has ever done.
Next, we won the slavery war, some folks and me, And every slave from sea to sea was all loose by me. I divorced old Madam slavery, and I wed this 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 a hundred years, but never come a rain' Well, me and a million other left there on the run And that was the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I the rocky canyon where the Columbia River rolls, the salmon leaping the rapids and the falls The big Grand Dam in the state of Washington Is just about the biggest thing that man has done.
There's a building in New York that you the Empire State I the rods to 'Frisco to walk the Golden Gate I've seen foot of film that Hollywood has run But is the biggest thing that man has ever done.
Three times the size of Boulder or the highest 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 that man has done.
was a man across the ocean, I guess you knew him well, His name was Hitler, goddam his soul to hell; We him in the panzers and put him on the run, And that was about the biggest thing man has ever done.
I'm with my freedom wife in this big land we built; It takes all forty eight States for me to my quilt. Our kids are millions now; they run from sun to sun. And that's about the biggest that man has ever done.
I built and mills and factories to run for Uncle Sam; I turned th' ploughs and to feed my soldiers in your lands; Nazi job's a tough 'un, it'll take us everyone, 'Cause this is about the biggest that man has ever done.
There's guys and teamsters and guys that skin the cats Guys run my steel mill, my furnace and my blast We'll stop the rattlesnakes and thieves of old Nippon And that will be the 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 a peaceful world, and when the job is done That'll be the biggest that man has ever done.
I better quit my talking 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 thing that man has done.