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(The Great Historical Bum)

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.



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  3. Bad Lee Brown
  4. Baltimore to Washington
  5. Bed on the Floor
  6. Better World A-Comin'
  7. Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
  8. Blowing Down the Road
  9. Boll Weevil Blues
  10. Brown Eyes
  11. Buffalo Skinners
  12. Bury Me Beneath the Willow
  13. Car Song
  14. Columbus Stockade
  15. Cowboy Waltz
  16. Cumberland Gap
  17. Danville Girl
  18. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
  19. Dirty Overalls
  20. Do-Re-Mi
  21. Dust Bowl Blues
  22. End of the Line
  23. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
  24. Foggy Mountain Top
  25. Get Along Little Doggies
  26. Grand Coulee Dam
  27. Gypsy Davy
  28. Hang Knot
  29. Hard Ain't It Hard
  30. Hard Travelin'
  31. Hey Lolly Lolly
  32. Hobo's Lullaby
  33. Houst of the Rising Sun
  34. Howjadoo
  35. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
  36. Jack Hammer Blues
  37. Jesus Christ
  38. John Henry
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  40. Little Black Train
  41. Lonesome Day
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  51. Put My Little Shoes Away
  52. Ramblin' Round
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  54. Ride Old Paint
  55. Rubber Dolly
  56. Sally Goodin'
  57. Ship in the Sky
  58. Sinking of the Reuben James
  59. Skip to My Lou
  60. So Long It's Been Good to Know You
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  62. Springfield Mountain
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  65. Take a Whiff on Me
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  70. Dying Miner
  71. This Land Is Your Land
  72. Tom Joad Blues, Pt. 1
  73. Tom Joad Blues, Pt. 2
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  75. Vigilante Man
  76. Waiting at the Gate
  77. We Shall Be Free
  78. What Did the Deep Sea Say?
  79. When the Yank's Go Marching In
  80. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Feet?
  81. Whoopie Tii Yi Yo, Get Along Little Doggies
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