Jerry Garcia – I Was Born Ten Thousand Years Ago (Guitar)

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[Intro] G [Verse 1]
      G                              D
I was born about ten thousand years ago

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

      C                             G
I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playin' ring-around-the-roses

         D                               G
And I'll whup the guy what says it isn't so   (Now listen to this)
[Verse 2]
          G                               D
Well, I'm just a lonesome traveler, and a great historical bum

D                    G
Highly educated from history I did come

  C                              G
I built the Rock of Ages, it was in the year oh one

    D                                    G
And that's about the niftiest thing that Man has ever done

 G
(Ah yeah, thunder. Yeah. Ain't a wise young whippersnapper feller.)
[Verse 3]
      G                               D
I saw Satan when he looked the garden o'er

      D                          G
I saw Adam and Eve driven to the door

      C                                G
And behind the bushes peeping, saw the apple they was eating

     D                                   G
I'll swear that I'm the one what ate the core (Talk about the garden)
[Verse 4]
       G                                D
Well I built the garden of Eden, it was in the year two

           D                         G
Formed the apple-pickers union and I always paid my dues

        C                                   G
I'm the man who signed the contract for the risin' of the sun

    D                                    G
And that's about the sweetest thing that Man has ever done

 G
(Hand fold face flag, all this)

 G
(Fly like a rag, yeah, goodies)
[Verse 5]
    G                                      D
Now sweet Elizabeth, she fell in love with me

        D                          G
We were married in Milwaukee secretly

    C                            G
And I got tired of sugar and ran off to get a hooker

     D                          G
At a bass-eater's down in Tennessee
[Verse 6]
      G                         D
I was in the revolution when we set this country free

       D                               G
It was me and a couple of Indians that dumped the Boston tea

  C                             G
I won our independence fightin' with George Washington

    D                                   G
And that's about the biggest thing that Man has ever done (Top that.)
[Outro]
      G                              D
I was born about ten thousand years ago

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

      C                             G
I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playin' ring-around-the-roses

         D                               G
And I'll whup the guy what says it isn't so
N.C. (Hey, I have an announcement. Barbara's mother would like to know if anyone wants any more food.) N.C. (Yes.) (Laughter)