10,000 Years Ago

歌詞

I was born ten thousand years ago There ain't nothing 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 I'm highly educated, from 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 Satan when he looked the Garden o'er Saw Adam and Eve a-driven from the door And from behind the bushes peeping, saw the apple they was eating And I swear that I'm the one what et the core I built the Garden of Eden, it was in the year of Two Joined the apple pickers' union, 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 Showed Columbus this happy land And for pharaoh's little kiddies I built all the pyramiddies And to the Sahara, carried all the sand 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 ABC's I'm the first one et Limburger cheese And while floating down the bay with Methuselah one day I saw his whiskers blowing in the breeze Well I was in the revolution that set this country free It was me and a couple of injuns 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 man has ever done Queen Elizabeth, she fell in love with me We were married in Milwaukee secretly But I got tired and shook her, and went off with General Hooker A-fighting skeeters down in Tennessee