The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done Lyrics

The song The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named Some Folk in the year 2006 .



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, that 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 that was 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 that was 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 that was about the biggest thing that man had ever done.

I stopped old Caesar's Romans, and I stopped the Kubla Khan;
I took but half an hour's work to beat the Pharaoh's bands;
I knocked old Kaiser Bill flat, then I dumped the bloody Huns,
And that's about the biggest thing that man has 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;
And that was about the biggest thing that man has ever done.

Next, we won the slavery war, some other folks and me,
And every slave from sea to sea was all turned loose by me.
I divorced old Madam slavery, and I wed this freedom dame.
And that's about the biggest thing that man has ever done.

And then I took to farming on the great midwestern plain,
The dust it blowed a hundred years, but never come a rain'
Well, me and a million other fellas left there on the run
And that was about the biggest thing that man has ever done.

I clumb the rocky canyon where the Columbia River rolls,
Seen the salmon leaping the rapids and the falls
The big Grand Coulee Dam in the state of Washington
Is just about the biggest thing that man has ever done.

There's a building in New York that you call the Empire State
I rode the rods to 'Frisco to walk the Golden Gate
I've seen every foot of film that Hollywood has run
But Coulee is the biggest thing that man has ever done.

Three times the size of Boulder or the highest pyramid
Makes the Tower of Babel a plaything for a kid
From the rising of the river to the setting of the sun
The Coulee is the biggest thing that man has ever done.

There was a man across the ocean, 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 that was about the biggest thing that man has ever done.

I'm living with my freedom wife in this big land we built;
It takes all forty eight States for me to spread my quilt.
Our kids are several millions now; they run from sun to sun.
And that's about the biggest thing that man has ever done.

I built mines and mills and factories to run for Uncle Sam;
I turned th' ploughs and wheels to feed my soldiers in your lands;
This Nazi job's a tough 'un, it'll take us everyone,
'Cause this is about 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,
But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go,
The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done
That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.

I better quit my talking now; I told you all I know,
But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go,
I'm older than your old folks, and I'm younger than the young,
And I'm about the biggest thing that man has ever done.



Woody Guthrie - Some Folk

Sep 2006

  1. Lost Train Blues
  2. Railroad Blues
  3. Old Joe Clark/Beaumont Rag
  4. Greenback Dollar
  5. Boll Weevil Song
  6. So Long It's Been Good to Know You
  7. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
  8. Do-Re-Mi
  9. Hard Times
  10. Pretty Boy Floyd
  11. They Laid Jesus Christ In His Grave
  12. Jolly Banker
  13. I Ain't Got No Home
  14. Dirty Overalls
  15. Chain Around My Leg
  16. Worried Man Blues
  17. Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad
  18. Dust Storm Disaster
  19. Foggy Mountain Top
  20. Dust Pneumonia Blues
  21. California Blues
  22. Dust Bowl Refugee
  23. Will Rogers Highway
  24. Los Angeles New Year's Flood
  25. The Great Dust Storm
  26. Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues
  27. Pretty Boy Floyd
  28. Dusty Old Dust
  29. Dust Bowl Blues
  30. Blowin' Down this Road
  31. Tom Joad Part 1
  32. Tom Joad Part 2
  33. Do Re Mi
  34. Dust Bowl Refugee
  35. I Ain't Got No Home
  36. Vigilante Man
  37. Dust Can't Kill Me
  38. Dust Pneumonia Blues
  39. Oregon Trail
  40. Roll On Columbia
  41. New Found Land
  42. Talking Columbia
  43. Roll Columbia Roll
  44. Columbia's Waters
  45. Ramblin' Blues
  46. It Takes A Married Man To Sing A Worried Song
  47. Hard Travelin'
  48. The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
  49. Grand Coulee Dam
  50. Song Of The Coulee Dam
  51. Jackhammer Blues
  52. Washington Talkin' Blues
  53. Ramblin' Round
  54. Pastures Of Plenty
  55. The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
  56. End Of The Line
  57. I Ride An Old Paint
  58. House Of The Rising Sun
  59. Hard Ain't It Hard
  60. The Dodger Song
  61. Ida Red
  62. Muleskinner Blues
  63. What Are We Waiting On
  64. Ship In the Sky
  65. The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
  66. Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine)
  67. New York Town
  68. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
  69. Chisolm Trail
  70. Sowing On The Mountain
  71. Sally Don't You Grieve
  72. Philadelphia Lawyer
  73. Little Darling (At My Window Sad And Lonely)
  74. Baltimore To Washington
  75. Bed On The Floor
  76. Dead Or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
  77. Billy The Kid
  78. Stackolee
  79. Take A Whiff On Me
  80. Buffalo Gals
  81. Ride Around Little Doggies (I Ride An Old Paint)
  82. Talking Fish Blues
  83. Jesse James
  84. Sinking Of The Reuben James
  85. When The Great Ship Went Down
  86. Stepstone
  87. Hobo's Lullaby
  88. Slipknot (Hangknot Slipknot)
  89. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
  90. When the Yanks Go Marching In
  91. Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy
  92. Little Black Train
  93. Gypsy Davy
  94. Cowboy Waltz
  95. 1913 Massacre
  96. Ludlow Massacre
  97. Ramblin' Round
  98. When the Curfew Blows
  99. New Found Land

The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done