I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago / The Biggest Thing-Odetta

[ti:I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago/The Biggest Thing (Live)] [ar:Odetta] [al:The Tin Angel] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.65]I was born about ten thousand years ago [00:03.25] [00:04.54]There ain't nuthin' in this world [00:06.24]That I don't know [00:07.13] [00:07.97]I saw Peter Paul and Moses playin' [00:10.21]Ring around the roses [00:11.52]And I'll whup the guy what says it isn't so [00:14.85] [00:15.40]Well I'm just a lonesome traveler [00:17.36]A great historical bum [00:18.75] [00:19.26]Highly educated through history I have come [00:22.64]I built the Rock of Ages [00:24.41]It was in the year oh one [00:26.29]And that's about the biggest thing [00:28.44]That Man has ever done [00:29.87]I saw any look garden door [00:32.59] [00:33.67]I saw Adam and Eve driven from the door [00:36.34] [00:37.03]And from behind the bushes peepin' [00:38.69]Saw the apple they was eatin' [00:40.58]And I swear that I'm the one [00:42.22]That et the core [00:43.98]Garden of Eden [00:45.12]Now I built the garden of Eden [00:47.01]It was in the year oh two [00:48.58]Joined the apple pickers union [00:50.79]And I always paid my dues [00:52.37]I'm the man that signed [00:53.73]The contract to raise the risin' sun [00:56.15]And that's about the biggest thing [00:58.40]That Man has ever done [00:59.86]I taught Samson how to use his mighty hand [01:02.85] [01:04.03]I showed Columbus to this happy land [01:06.52] [01:07.30]And for Pharaoh's little kiddies [01:09.28]I built all the pyramiddies [01:10.86]And to the Sahara carried all the sand [01:14.02] [01:14.62]Pyramids [01:15.39]Now I was strawboss on the pyramids [01:17.65]And the tower of Babel too [01:18.74] [01:19.26]I opened up the ocean [01:20.82]Let the mighty children through [01:22.70]I fought a million battles [01:24.43]And I never lost a one [01:26.43]And that's about the biggest thing [01:28.51]That Man has ever done [01:29.99]I taught Solomon his little ABC's [01:33.92]I'm the first one to eat Limburger cheese [01:37.46]And while floating down the bay [01:39.23]With Methuseleh one day [01:41.22]I saw his whiskers floating in the breeze [01:44.58] [01:45.16]Now I fought the revolution [01:46.50]That set this country free [01:48.48]It was me and a couple of Indians [01:50.43]That dumped the Boston tea [01:52.03]I won the battle of Valley Forge [01:54.23]And the battle of Bully Run [01:55.76]And that's about the biggest thing [01:57.85]That Man has ever done [01:59.52]Now Queen Elizabeth [02:00.56]She fell in love with me [02:02.01] [02:02.99]We were married in Milwaukee secretly [02:05.92] [02:06.76]But I got tired and shook her [02:08.54]And ran off with General Hooker [02:10.11]To go shootin' skeeters down in Tennessee [02:13.15] [02:41.10]I Was Born About 10 000 Years Ago/The Biggest Thing (Live) - Odetta