| 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 stopped old Caesar’s Romans, and I stopped the Kubla Khan; | 
| I took but half an hour’s work to beat the Pharaoh’s bands; | 
| I knocked old Kaiser Bill flat, then I dumped the bloody Huns, | 
| And that’s about the biggest thing that man has 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. | 
| Next, we won the slavery war, some other folks and me, | 
| And every slave from sea to sea was all turned loose by me. | 
| I divorced old Madam slavery, and I wed this freedom dame. | 
| And that’s about the biggest thing that man has ever done. | 
| And then I took to farming on the great midwestern plain, | 
| The dust it blowed a hundred years, but never come a rain' | 
| Well, me and a million other fellas left there on the run | 
| And that was about the biggest thing that man has ever done. | 
| I clumb the rocky canyon where the Columbia River rolls, | 
| Seen the salmon leaping the rapids and the falls | 
| The big Grand Coulee Dam in the state of Washington | 
| Is just about the biggest thing that man has ever done. | 
| There’s a building in New York that you call the Empire State | 
| I rode the rods to 'Frisco to walk the Golden Gate | 
| I’ve seen every foot of film that Hollywood has run | 
| But Coulee is the biggest thing that man has ever done. | 
| Three times the size of Boulder or the highest pyramid | 
| Makes the Tower of Babel a plaything for a kid | 
| From the rising of the river to the setting of the sun | 
| The Coulee is 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’m living with my freedom wife in this big land we built; | 
| It takes all forty eight States for me to spread my quilt. | 
| Our kids are several millions now; | 
| they run from sun to sun. | 
| And that’s 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. | 
| I better quit my talking now; | 
| I told you all I know, | 
| But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go, | 
| I’m older than your old folks, and I’m younger than the young, | 
| And I’m about the biggest thing that man has ever done. |