(The Historical Bum)
I'm just a lonesome traveler, The Historical Bum. Highly educated from I have come. I built the of Ages, 'twas in the Year of One And was about the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I worked in the Garden of Eden, was the year of two, Joined the apple pickers union, I always my due; I'm the man signed 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 let the migrant children through, I a million battles and I never lost a one, And was about the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I the daring Roman, I beat the daring Turk, Defeated army with thirty minutes work, I the greatest leaders and I licked them everyone And that was about the thing that man had ever done.
I stopped old Caesar's Romans, and I the Kubla Khan; I took but an hour's work to beat the Pharaoh's bands; I knocked old Kaiser Bill flat, then I dumped the Huns, And that's the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I was in the Revolution when we set the free; Me and a couple of Indians that the Boston tea; We won the at Valley Forge, the battle of Bully Run; And was about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
Next, we won the war, some other folks and me, And slave from sea to sea was all turned loose by me. I divorced old Madam slavery, and I wed freedom dame. And that's about the thing that man has ever done.
And then I to farming on the great midwestern plain, The dust it blowed a hundred years, but never come a Well, me and a million other fellas there on the run And was about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I the rocky canyon where the Columbia River rolls, Seen the salmon leaping the and the falls The big Coulee Dam in the state of Washington Is just about the thing that man has ever done.
There's a building in New York 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 biggest that man has ever done.
Three times the size of Boulder or the pyramid Makes the Tower of Babel a for a kid From the rising of the 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 was Adolf Hitler, goddam his soul to hell; We him in the panzers and put him on the run, And that was about the biggest thing that man has done.
I'm living my freedom wife in this big land 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 biggest 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 This Nazi job's a tough 'un, take us everyone, 'Cause this is about the biggest that man has ever done.
There's warehouse guys and teamsters and that skin the cats Guys that run my steel mill, my and my blast We'll stop the Axis rattlesnakes and thieves of old And that will be the thing that man has ever done.
I'd better quit my talking, 'cause I you all I know, But remember, pardner, wherever you may go, The people are building a peaceful world, and the job is done That'll be the biggest thing man has ever done.
I better quit my now; I told you all I know, But please remember, pardner, you may go, I'm older your old folks, and I'm younger than the young, And I'm about the biggest that man has ever done.