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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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Woody Guthrie - The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4

  1. This Land is Your Land
  2. Car Song
  3. Rambling Round
  4. Talking Fishing Blues
  5. Philadelphia Lawyer
  6. Lindbergh
  7. Hobo's Lullaby
  8. Pastures of Plenty
  9. Grand Coulee Dam
  10. End of the Line
  11. New York Town
  12. Gypsy Davy
  13. Jesus Christ
  14. Do-Re-Mi
  15. Jarama Valley
  16. The Biggest Thing Man's Ever Done
  17. Picture from Life's Other Side
  18. Jesse James
  19. Talking Hard Work
  20. When That Great Ship Went Down
  21. Hard Ain't it Hard
  22. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
  23. I Ain't Got Nobody
  24. The Sinking of the Reuben James
  25. Why, Oh Why?
  26. This Land is Your Land (reprise)
  27. Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel #8)
  28. The Wreck of the Old 97
  29. Sally Goodin'
  30. Little Black Train
  31. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
  32. Baltimore to Washington
  33. Rubber Dolly
  34. 21 Years
  35. Sowing on the Mountain
  36. Bed on the Floor
  37. Take a Whiff on Me
  38. Stepstone
  39. Put My Little Shoes Away
  40. Hen Cackle
  41. Poor Boy
  42. Stackolee (Stagger Lee)
  43. Johnny Hart (John Hardy)
  44. Worried Man Blues
  45. Danville Girl
  46. Gambling Man
  47. Rye Straw
  48. Crawdad Song
  49. Ida Red
  50. Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
  51. Train 45
  52. Hard Travelin'
  53. Farmer-Labor Train
  54. Howdjado
  55. Ship in the Sky
  56. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
  57. Mean Talking Blues
  58. Better World A-Coming
  59. Miss Pavlichencko
  60. So Long It's Been Good to Know You (War Version)
  61. New Found Land
  62. Oregon Trail
  63. Vigilante Man
  64. 1913 Massacre
  65. Talking Columbia
  66. Two Good Men
  67. Sally Don't You Grieve
  68. Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine)
  69. What are We Waiting On?
  70. Railroad Blues
  71. Ludlow Massacre
  72. Ladies Auxilary
  73. Miner's Song
  74. When the Yanks Go Marching In?
  75. Union Maid (excerpt)
  76. The Rubaiyat (excerpt)
  77. The Many and the Few
  78. Hanukkah Dance
  79. Ranger's Command
  80. Buffalo Skinners
  81. Billy the Kid
  82. Cowboy Waltz
  83. Pretty Boy Floyd
  84. Along in the Sun and the Rain
  85. Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
  86. Froggie Went A-Courtin'
  87. Buffalo Gals
  88. I Ride an Old Paint
  89. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazurus)
  90. Slip Knot
  91. Cocaine Blues (Bad Lee Brown)
  92. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
  93. Chisholm Trail
  94. Stewball
  95. Wild Cyclone
  96. Train Blues
  97. Red River Valley
  98. Fastest of Ponies
  99. Stewball
  100. Snow Deer
  101. When the Curfew Blues
  102. Little Darling (At My Window Sad and Lonely)
  103. Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
  104. The Return of Rocky Mountain Slim and Desert Rat Shorty