Great Historical Bum (The Newport Folk Festival 1959, Vol. 2)

Great Historical Bum (The Newport Folk Festival 1959, Vol. 2) - Odetta

I'm just a lonesome traveler

A great historical bum

Highly educated through history I have come

I built the rock of ages

It was in the year of one

That's about the biggest thing

That man has ever done

I built the garden of eden

It was in the year of two

Joined the apple pickers union

And I always paid my due

I'm the man that signed the contract

To raise the rising sun

That's about the biggest thing

That man has ever done

I was straw boss on the pyramids

And 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

That's about the biggest thing

That man has ever done

I fought the revolution that set this country free

It was me and a couple of indians

That dumped the boston tea

I won't the battle of valley forge

And the battle of bully run

And that's about the biggest thing

That men has ever done

I'm just a lonesome traveler

A great historical bum

Highly educated through history I have come

I built the rock of ages it was in the year of one

That's about the biggest thing man has ever done

I said

That's about the biggest thing that can't ever done