Guthrie Woody Just The Facts Maam lyrics

JUST THE FACTS, MA`AM
note: two songs sung alternately

I was born about ten thousand years ago
There ain`t nothing in this world that I don`t know
I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing Ring Around the Roses
And I`ll whup the guy who says it isn`t so

I`m just a lonesome traveler, the great historical bum
Highly educated, from history I come
I built the Rock of Ages, twas in the year of one
And that was the biggest thing that man has ever done

I saw Satan when he looked the Garden o`er
I saw Eve and Adam driven from the door
From behind the bushes peeping, saw the apple they was eating
I swear that I`m the guy what ate the core
Garden of Eden?
Well, I built the Garden of Eden, it was in the year of two
Joined the Apple Pickers Union and I always paid my dues
I`m the man who signed the contract to raise the rising sun
And that`s about the biggest thing that man has ever done

I taught Samson how to use his mighty hands
Showed Columbus to this mighty land
And for Phaoroh`s little kiddies built all the pyramiddies
And to the Sahara carried all the sand

Pyramids? why...
I was straw boss on the pyramids, the Tower of Babel too
I opened up the ocean, let the migrant children through
Well, 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 A B Cs
I was the first one ate Limburger cheese
And while sailing down the bay with Methuselah one day
I saved his flowing whiskers from the breeze

Well I was in the Revolution when we set this country free
It was me and a couple of Indians who dumped the Boston tea
Well 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

Queen Elizabeth fell dead in love with me
We were married in Milwaukee secretly
But I snuck around and shook her, to go with General Hooker
To fight mosquiters down in Tennessee
Woody Guthrie wrote the second song
@humor @boast
see also PASSTHRU
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