Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done, artist - Woody Guthrie. Album song Three Golden Legends, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 18.09.2014
Record label: Suburban Squire
Song language: English
The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done |
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. |