The Great Historical Bum (The Bragging Song) (Live)

歌詞

I was born about ten thousand years ago There ain't nothin' in this world that I don't know I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring-around-the-roses And I'll whup the guy what says it isn't so Well I'm just a lonesome traveler, a great historical bum Highly educated, through history I have come I built the Rock of Ages, it was in the year of One And that's about the biggest thing that man has ever done I saw Adam and Eve a-driven from the door I'm the guy that pick the fig leaves that they wore And from behind the bushes peeping, saw the apple they were eating And I'll swear that I'm the one that ate the core Now, I built the Garden of Eden, it was in the year of Two Joined the Apple Pickers Union, and I always paid my due I'm the man that signed the contract to raise the Rising Sun And that's about the biggest thing that man has ever done I taught Samson how to use his mighty hand I showed Columbus to this happy land And for Pharaoh's little kiddies I built all the pyramiddies And to the Sahara carried all the sand Now, I was straw boss on the pyramids, and the Tower of Babel too I opened up the ocean, let the migrant children through I fought a million battles and I never lost a one And that's about the biggest thing that man has ever done I taught Solomon his little A-B-C's I'm the first one that ate Limburger cheese And while floating down the bay with Methuselah one day I saw his whiskers floating in the breeze Now, I fought the Revolution that set this country free It was me and a couple of Indians that dumped the Boston tea I won the battle of Valley Forge and the battle of Bully Run And that's about the biggest thing that men has ever done Well, Queen Elizabeth, she fell in love with me We were married in Milwaukee secretly But I got tired and shook her and ran off with General Hooker To go shooting skeeters down in Tennessee I was born about ten thousand years ago There ain't nothin' in this world that I don't know I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring-around-the-roses And I'll whup the guy what says it isn't so Well I'm just a lonesome traveler, a great historical bum Highly educated, through history I have come I built the Rock of Ages, it was in the year of One And that's about the biggest thing Man has ever done