The Old-Timer - The New Christy Minstrels

I'm an old timer

I'm an excellent rhymer

I'll send you a song of the sights I have seen

It's late in December but well I remember

The springtime of youth when the world was so green

I was born a hundred thousand years ago

There ain't nothing in this world that I don't know

There's no place that I ain't been

Round the world and back again

And I'll whup the man that says it isn't so

In the dawn of civilization I recall

My cave had bearskin carpets

Wall to wall

We were quite the social group

I was friends without you

And a charming fellow named Neanderthal

I knew Adam and Eve before they knew the score

It was I designed the fig leaves that they wore

And behind the bushes kneeling

Saw the apple they was peeling

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

I was born a hundred thousand years ago

There ain't nothing in this world that I don't know

There's no place that I ain't been

Round the world and back again

And I'll whup the man that says it isn't so

Took a trip with Cleopatra down the Nile

Yes we dated off and on for quite awhile

And for King Tut and his kiddies

I built all the pyramiddies

And I represented Caesar at his trial

Mr Nero was a personal friend of mine

The way he played the fiddle was divine

I went by invitation

To a Roman celebration

And ended up with ashes in my wine

I was born a hundred thousand years ago

There ain't nothing in this world that I don't know

There's no place that I ain't been

Round the world and back again

And I'll whup the man that says it isn't so

I'll tell you how America came to be

I went sailing with Columbus cross the sea

He got sick the day we landed

And he went home empty-handed

By rights the whole darn place belongs to me

I know much more than any book can tell

And you must admit

I sing it rather well

And the last part is the best

If you'd like to hear the rest

You can sing it for yourself or go to hell

I was born a hundred thousand years ago

There ain't nothing in this world that I don't know

There's no place that I ain't been

Round the world and back again

And I'll whup the man that says it isn't so

And I'll whup the man that says it isn't so