Verse
F# C#7
Well, I’m just a lonesome traveler, a great historical bum.
C#7 F#
Highly educated through history I have come.
B F#
I built the rock of ages it was in the year of one.
C#7 F#
And that’s about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
[Verse 2]
F# C#7
I saw Adam & Eve driven from the door.
C#7 F#
I’m the guy that picked the fig leaves that they wore.
F# B F#
And from behind the bushes peepin’ saw the apple they was eatin’.
F# C#7 F#
And I swear that I’m the one what ate the core.
[Verse 3]
F# C#7
Now I built the garden of Eden it was in the year of two.
C#7 F#
Joined the apple pickers union and I always paid my due.
B F#
I’m the man what signed the contract to raise the rising sun.
C#7 F#
And that’s about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
[Verse 4]
F# C#7
I taught Samson how to use his mighty hand.
C#7 F#
I showed Columbus to this happy land.
B F#
And for Pharaoh’s little kiddies I built all the pyramiddies.
C#7 F#
And to the Sahara carried all the sand.
[Verse 5]
F# C#7
Now I was straw boss on the pyramids, and the tower of Babel too.
C#7 F#
I opened up the ocean, let the migrant children through.
B F#
I fought a million battles and I never lost a one.
C#7 F#
And that’s about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
[Verse 6]
F# C#7
I taught Solomon his little ABC’s.
C#7 F#
I’m the first one that ate Limburger cheese.
B F#
And while floatin’ down the bay with Methuselah one day.
C#7 F#
I saw his whiskers floatin’ in the breeze.
[Verse 7]
F# C#7
Now, I fought the revolution that set this country free
C#7 F#
It was me and a couple of Indians that dumped the Boston tea
B F#
I won the battle of Valley Forge and the battle of bully run
C#7 F#
And that’s about the biggest thing that man has ever done.
[Verse 8]
F# C#7
Well, Queen Elizabeth she fell in love with me
C#7 F#
We were married in Milwaukee secretly
B F#
But I got tired and shook her and ran off with General Hooker
C#7 F#
To go shootin’ skeeters down in Tennessee.
[Chorus]
F# C#7
I was born about 10,000 years ago
C#7 F#
There ain't nothin' in this world that I don't know
B F#
I saw Peter, Paul & Moses playing ring around the roses
F# C#7 F#
And I'll whup the guy what says it isn't so.
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