I learned this song at the Old Town School of Folk Music in the late 1950s.
[E] I was born ten thousand years [B7] ago
There ain’t nothin’ in this world that [E] I don’t know
[A] I saw Pater, Paul, and Moses playing [E] ring-around-the-roses
[B7] And I’ll bash the guy that says [E] it isn’t so
I taught Samson how to use his mighty hands
I showed Columbus where to find this land
And for Pharoah’s little kids, I went and built the Pyramids
And to the Sahara carried all the sand
I taught Soloman his simple A-B-C’s
I was the first man to eat Limburger cheese
And while floatin’ down the bay with Methusala one day
I cut his beard a-floatin’ in the breeze
I saw Nero fiddlein’ when he burned up Rome
And I told him it looked like his future home
And when he had the nerve to swear, well I dragged him from his chair
And I burst a whiskey bottle on his nose
The Queen of Sheba fell in love with me
We were married up in Dublin secretly
But I got tired of naggin’, so I bought a covered wagon
I took the wagon train to Tennessee
I was born ten thousand years ago
There ain’t nothin’ in the world that I don’t know
I saw Pater, Paul, and Moses playing ring-around-the-roses
And I’ll bash the guy that says it isn’t so