Just The Facts Maam Lyrics - Singles - Guthrie Woody

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 

see also PASSTHRU 

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