(The Great Bum)
I'm a lonesome traveler, The Great Historical Bum. Highly from history I have come. I built the Rock of Ages, in the Year of One And that was the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I in the Garden of Eden, that was the year of two, Joined the apple pickers union, I paid my due; I'm the man that signed the to raise the rising sun, And was about the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I was straw boss on the Pyramids, the Tower of Babel, I opened up the let the migrant children through, I fought a million battles and I never a one, And that was about the thing that man had ever done.
I beat the daring Roman, I the daring Turk, Defeated army with thirty minutes work, I fought the leaders and I licked them everyone And that was the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I stopped old Caesar's Romans, and I stopped the Kubla I took but half an hour's work to the Pharaoh's bands; I knocked old Kaiser Bill flat, then I dumped the Huns, And that's about the biggest 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 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 that man has done.
And then I took to farming on the great plain, The it blowed a hundred years, but never come a rain' Well, me and a million other fellas left on the run And that was about the biggest thing that man has done.
I clumb the rocky canyon the Columbia 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 that you call the State I rode the rods to to walk the Golden Gate I've seen every foot of film that has run But Coulee is the biggest that man has ever done.
Three times the of Boulder or the highest pyramid Makes the Tower of 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 across the ocean, I guess you him well, His name was Adolf Hitler, goddam his soul to We kicked him in the and put him on the run, And that was about the biggest thing that man has done.
I'm with my freedom wife in this big land we built; It takes all forty eight for me to spread my quilt. Our kids are several millions now; 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 turned th' ploughs and to feed my soldiers in your lands; This Nazi job's a tough 'un, take us everyone, 'Cause this is the biggest thing that man has ever done.
There's warehouse and teamsters and guys that skin the cats that run my steel mill, my furnace and my blast We'll stop the Axis rattlesnakes and of old Nippon And that be the biggest 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 are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done be the biggest 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 your old folks, and I'm younger than the young, And I'm about the biggest thing man has ever done.