(The Historical Bum)
I'm just a lonesome traveler, The Great Bum. Highly educated from I have come. I the Rock of Ages, 'twas in the Year of One And that was about the biggest thing man had ever done.
I worked in the Garden of Eden, that was the of two, the apple pickers union, I always paid my due; I'm the man signed the contract to raise the rising sun, And was about the biggest thing that man had ever done.
I was straw on the Pyramids, the Tower of Babel, too; I opened up the ocean let the children through, I fought a battles and I never lost a one, And that was about the thing that man had ever done.
I beat the Roman, I beat the daring Turk, Defeated army with thirty minutes work, I fought the greatest leaders and I licked them And that was about the biggest thing that man had done.
I stopped old Caesar's Romans, and I stopped the Kubla I took but half an hour's work to beat the bands; I knocked old Kaiser Bill flat, then I dumped the Huns, And that's about the thing that man has ever done.
I was in the Revolution when we set the country Me and a couple of Indians dumped the Boston tea; We won the battle at Valley Forge, the battle of Bully And that was about the thing that man has ever done.
Next, we won the slavery war, some folks and me, And slave from sea to sea was all turned loose by me. I old Madam slavery, and I wed this freedom dame. And that's about the thing that man has ever done.
And then I took to farming on the midwestern plain, The dust it blowed a years, but never come a rain' Well, me and a million other fellas there on the run And that was about the thing that man has ever done.
I clumb the rocky where the Columbia River rolls, Seen the salmon leaping the and the falls The big Coulee Dam in the state of Washington Is just about the biggest thing man has ever done.
There's a building in New that you call the Empire State I the rods to 'Frisco to walk the Golden Gate seen every foot of film that Hollywood has run But Coulee is the biggest thing man has ever done.
Three times the size of Boulder or the highest Makes the Tower of a plaything for a kid From the rising of the to the setting of the sun The Coulee is the biggest that man has ever done.
There was a man across the ocean, I you knew him well, His was Adolf Hitler, goddam his soul to hell; We kicked him in the and put him on the run, And that was about the biggest that man has ever done.
I'm living with my freedom wife in this big land we It takes all forty States for me to spread my quilt. Our kids are several millions now; run from sun to sun. And that's the biggest thing that man has ever done.
I built mines and mills and to run for Uncle Sam; I turned th' and wheels to feed my soldiers in your lands; This Nazi job's a tough 'un, it'll us everyone, 'Cause this is about the biggest that man has ever done.
There's warehouse guys and teamsters and guys that skin the Guys that run my steel mill, my and my blast We'll stop the Axis and thieves of old Nippon And that will be the biggest thing man has ever done.
I'd better quit my talking, I told you all I know, But please remember, pardner, you may go, The are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done That'll be the biggest that man has ever done.
I better quit my talking now; I you all I know, But please remember, pardner, you may go, I'm than your old folks, and I'm younger than the young, And I'm about the biggest thing that man has done.