Born About Six Thousand Years Ago

Born About Six Thousand Years Ago - Doc Watson

I was born about six thousand years ago

They ain't nothin' in this world that I don't know

I saw Old King Pharaoh's daughter

Find Little Moses on the water

And I can whip the man that says it isn't so

I saw Noah when he built that famous ark

I slipped into it one night when it got dark

I saw Jonah swallowed by the whale

And I pulled the lion's tail

I can whip the man that says it isn't so

I'm an educated man

To get more sense within my head I plan

Well I've been on earth so long

And I used to sing a little song

While all of them old timers took their stand

Queen Elizabeth fell dead in love with me

(hee hee she did)

We was married in Milwaukee secretly

Then I took her out and shook her

And I went with General Hooker

To fight mosquitoes down in Tennessee

I taught Solomon his little A B C's (smart feller)

And through all his books

I tutored him with ease

Then I sailed out on the bay

With Methuselah one day

And I played with his

Flowing whiskers in the breeze

I'm an educated man

To get more sense within my head I plan

Well I've been on earth so long

And I used to sing a little song

While all of them old timers took their stand

I seen old Satan when he searched that Garden o'er

(old booger)

Saw Adam and Eve driven from the door

When the applese they were eating

From the bushes I was a-peeping

I can prove it from the man that ate the core

I saw Cain when he killed Abel with a spade

And I know the game was poker that they played

I was hid behind the shrub when

He slapped him with that club

Poor old Abel caught him a-cheatin'

And now he's dead

I'm an educated man to get more

Sense within my head I plan

Well I've been on earth so long

And I used to sing a little song

While all of them old timers took their stand