The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done

The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done - Woody Guthrie

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 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

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 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 yeah

I'm about the biggest thing

That man has ever done