Tono: G
Introducción:
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I was born ten thousand years ago
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And there's nothing in this world that I don't know
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I saw Pater, Paul, and Moses playing ring around the roses
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And I'll lick the man that says it isn't so
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I saw Satan when he searched the garden o'er
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I saw Eve and Adam driven from the door
G C
And behind the bushes peepin', saw the apple they were eatin'
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And I swear that I'm the guy that ate the core
G C G
I saw Jonah when he was in the whale
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And thought he'd never live to tell the tale
G C
But old Jonah'd eaten garlic, and he gave the whale the colic
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So he coughed him up and let him out of jail
G C G
I saw Israel in the battle of the Nile
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The arrows were flying thick and fast and wild
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I saw David with his sling pop Goliath on the wing
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I was doing forty seconds to the mile
G C G
I was born ten thousand years ago
D
And there's nothing in this world that I don't know
G C
I saw old King Pharoah's daughter takin Moses from the water
G D G
And I'll lick the man that says it isn't so
G C G
I saw Sampson when he laid the village cold
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Saw Daniel tame the lions in their hold
G C
I helped build the Tower of Babel up as high as they were able
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And there's many other things I haven't told
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I helped Brigham Young to make Limburger cheese
G C
And while sailing down the bay with Methuselah one day
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I saved his flowing whiskers from the breeze
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Queen Elizabeth, fell dead in love with me
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We were married in Milwaukee secretly
G C
But I schemed around and shook her, then she went with General Hooker
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To shoot mosquitoes down in Tennessee
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I remember when the country had a king
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I saw Cleopatra pawn her wedding ring
G C
And I saw th flags a'flyin' when George Washington stopped lyin'
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On the night when Patty first begin to sing
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So, you see I am an educated man
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To keep my brains in my head I plan
G C
Cause I been on earth so long, that I use to sing a song
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While Abraham and Issac played the band
G C G
I was born ten thousand years ago
D
And there's nothing in this world that I don't know
G C
I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring-around-the-roses
G D G
And I can lick the guy that says it is'nt so