I was born ten thousand years ago And there's nothing in this world that I don't know I saw Pater, Paul, and Moses playing ring around the roses And I'll lick the man that says it isn't so I saw Satan when he searched 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 in 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 was born ten thousand years ago And there's nothing in this world that I don't know I saw old King Pharoah's daughter takin Moses from the water And I'll lick the man that says it isn't so 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 Queen Elizabeth, fell dead in love with me We were married in Milwaukee secretly But I schemed around and shook her, then she went with General Hooker To shoot mosquitoes down in Tennessee I remember when the country had a king I saw Cleopatra pawn her wedding ring And I saw th flags a'flyin' when George Washington stopped lyin' On the night when Patty first begin to sing 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 the band 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 is'nt so