Ballads & Songs of Southern Michigan-songbook

A Collection of 200+ traditional songs & variations with commentaries including Lyrics & Sheet music

	448         Ballads and Songs of Michigan 187 THE HISTORIAN This is a version of what Sandburg, pp. 330-331, calls "a vest pocket encyclo­pedia." It is slightly suggestive of "Darky Sunday School," Lomax and Lomax, PP. 351-354-                                                  .                                    . The present version was obtained by Mrs. Lillian Ammerman, Detroit, from a Negro boy of fifteen in the Detention Home, Detroit. He had learned the song from hearing it sung in "jungles" where he had stayed. f"1 j '■" r 1 fi l r up I         was bom         a hnn - drcd thou - sand years a- if-jjj.- ; mj f r Mr N if go,                   And there's not a thing in his - t'ry I don't know                    I saw Pe - ter, Paul, and Mo - ses play - ing if 1 I 1 f 1 ' ' -m I
	i I was born a hundred thousand years ago, And therms not a thing in hist'ry I don't know. I saw Peter, Paul, and Moses playing "Ring Around the Roses," And I'll shoot the guy who says it isn't so. 2    I saw Absalom hanging by his hair; When they built the wall o£ China, I was there. I saved King Solomon's life; so he offered me a wife. I said, "Now you're talking business, have a chair." 3    I saw Adam and Eve a-driven from, their door; I'm the guy that picked the fig leaves that they wore. While the apple they were eating, I was 'round the corner peeking; I can prove that I'm the guy that ate the core.