Great Historical Bum

Great Historical Bum - 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 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