Cat. #0262 (MFH #690) - As sung by Rev. Harold E. Hunter, Eldorado Springs, Missouri on October 7, 1958

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VERSE 1

I was born about ten thousand years ago

An' there's nothin' in this world, that I don't know

I saw Peter, Paul and Moses

Playing ring around th roses

And I can lick th guy that says it is'nt so



VERSE 2

I saw Satan when he look th garden o'er

I saw Adam and Eve driven from th door

And behind th bushes peeping

I saw the apple they were eating

And I'll swear that I'm th guy that ate th core



VERSE 3

I saw Jonah when he embarked within th whale

And thought he'd never live to tell th tale

But ole Jonah had eatin' garlic

And he gave th whale th colic

So, he coughed up and let him out'a jail



VERSE 4

I saw Sampson when he laid th village cold

Saw Daniel tame th lions, in the hold

And to help build th tower of Babble

Up as high as we were able

And there's lots of other things I have'nt told



VERSE 5

I taught Solomon his little ABC's

I helped Brigham Young to make limburger cheese

And while sailing down th bay

With Methusela, one day

I saved his flowing whiskers from th breeze



VERSE 6

Queen Elizabeth, she fell in love with me

We were married in Milwaukee secretly

But I schemed around and shook her

And I went with General Hooker

To shoot misquites down in Tennessee



VERSE 7

I remember when th country had a king

I saw Cleopatra pawn her wedding ring

And I saw th flags a'flyin'

When George Washington stopped liein'

On th night when Patty first begin to sing



VERSE 8

So, you see I am an educated man

To keep my brains in my head I plan

Cause I been on earth, so long

That I use to sing a song

While Abraham and Issac played th band



VERSE 9

I was borned about ten thousand years ago

An' there's nothin' in this world that I don't know

I saw Peter, Paul and Moses

Playing ring around th roses

And I can lick th guy that says it is'nt so

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