I was born about ten thousand years ago

There ain't nuthin' in this world

That I don't know

I saw Peter Paul and Moses playin'

Ring around the roses

And I'll whup the guy what says it isn't so

Well 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 oh one

And that's about the biggest thing

That Man has ever done

I saw any look garden door

I saw Adam and Eve driven from the door

And from behind the bushes peepin'

Saw the apple they was eatin'

And I swear that I'm the one

That et the core

Garden of Eden

Now I built the garden of Eden

It was in the year oh two

Joined the apple pickers union

And I always paid my dues

I'm the man that signed

The contract to raise the risin' sun

And that's about the biggest thing

That Man has ever done

I taught Samson how to use his mighty hand

I showed Columbus to this happy land

And for Pharaoh's little kiddies

I built all the pyramiddies

And to the Sahara carried all the sand

Pyramids

Now I was strawboss on the pyramids

And the tower of Babel too

I opened up the ocean

Let the mighty children through

I fought a million battles

And I never lost a one

And that's about the biggest thing

That Man has ever done

I taught Solomon his little ABC's

I'm the first one to eat Limburger cheese

And while floating down the bay

With Methuseleh one day

I saw his whiskers floating in the breeze

Now 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 Man has ever done

Now Queen Elizabeth

She fell in love with me

We were married in Milwaukee secretly

But I got tired and shook her

And ran off with General Hooker

To go shootin' skeeters down in Tennessee

I Was Born About 10 000 Years Ago/The Biggest Thing (Live) - Odetta