The Biggest thing that Man has Ever Done (The Great Historical Bum) - Woody Guthrie

Lyrics by：Woodrow Wilson Guthrie

Composed by：Woodrow Wilson Guthrie

I'm just a lonesome traveler

The great historical bum

Highly educated from history

I have come

I built the rock of ages

'Twas in the year of one

And that 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 paid my due

I'm the man that signed

The contract to raise the rising sun

And about the biggest

Thing that man had ever done

I was straw boss on the Pyramids

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 about the

Biggest thing that man had ever done

I beat the daring Roman

I beat the daring Turk

Defeated Nero's army

With thirty minutes work

I fought the greatest leaders

And I licked them everyone

And about the biggest

Thing that man had ever done

I was in the Revolution when we

Set the country free

Me and a couple of Indians

That dumped the Boston tea

We won the battle at Valley Forge

The battle of Bully Run

That was about the biggest

Thing that man has ever done

There was a man across the ocean

And I guess you knew him well

His name was Adolf Hitler

Goddam his soul to hell

We kicked him in the

Panzers and put him on the run

And would be the biggest

Thing that man has ever done

I mines and mills and

Factories to run for Uncle Sam

For though some far the

Soldiers boys is far to this play lands

Are job it is a tough 'un

It'll take us everyone

This will be the

Biggest thing that man has ever done

There's warehouse guys and

Teamsters and guys that skin the cats

Guys that run my steel mill

My furnace and my blast

We'll stop the Axis rattlesnakes

And thieves of old Nippon

And that will be the biggest

Thing that man has ever done

I'd better quit my talking

'Cause I told you all I know

Please remember pardner

Wherever you may go

The world is big and

Happends is brave and when the jod is done

That'll be the biggest thing

That man has ever done

Yes that'll be the biggest thing

That man has ever done