I Was Born About 10, 000 Years Ago / The Biggest Thing (Live) - Odetta/Larry Mohr

Written by：Woody Guthr

I was born about ten thousand years ago

There ain't nothing in this world that I don't know

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 any look garden door

I saw Adam and Eve a-driven from the door

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

Garden of Eden

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

Pyramids 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

Well I was in 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