I was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago

Traditional, Recorded 1925· Novelty / Silly / Funny Songs · p.440

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I was born about ten thousand years ago

And there's nothing in this world that I don't know

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I saw Peter, Paul, and Moses playing ring around the roses

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And I'll lick the guy that say it isn't so

I saw Satan when he looked the garden o'er

I saw Eve and Adam driven from the door

And behind the bushes peepin', saw the apple they were eatin'

And I swear that I'm the guy that ate the core

I saw Jonah when he was within the whale

And thought he'd never live to tell the tale

But old Jonah'd eaten garlic, and he gave the whale the colic

So, he coughed him up and let him out of jail

I saw Israel in the battle of the Nile

The arrows were flying thick and fast and wild

I saw David with his sling, pop Goliath on the wing

I was doing forty seconds to the mile

I saw Sampson when he laid the village cold

Saw Daniel tame the lions in their hold

I helped build the Tower of Babel up as high as they were able

And there's many other things I haven't told

I taught Solomon his little A-B-C's

I helped Brigham Young to make limburger cheese

And while sailing down the bay with Methuselah one day

I saved his flowing whiskers from the breeze

I remember when the country had a king

I saw Cleopatra pawn her wedding ring

And I saw the flags a'flyin' when George Washington stopped lyin'

On the night when Patty first begin to sing

I was born ten thousand years ago

And there's nothing in this world that I don't know

I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring-around-the-roses

And I can lick the guy that says it isn’t so