Born About Six Thousand Years Ago

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The split chords show the movement between different chords which give this song its
character play them as a single bass note- for example

D7  D7/E D7/F# G   strum D7, play E F# on the 6th string, strum G

[Introduction]

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[Verse 1]
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I was born about six thousand years ago [ Fill1 ]
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They ain't nothin' in  this world that I    don't   know
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I saw Old King Pharaoh's daughter find Lit -tle Moses on  the  water
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And I can whip the man that says it is - n't   so

[Verse 2]
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I saw Noah when he  built that famous ark [ Fill1 ]
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I slipped into it one      night when it   got   dark
D7/A  G                   G7       G7/A G7/B C                C/B  C/Bb A7
I saw Jonah swallowed by the whale,          and I pulled the li - on's tail
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I can whip the man that says it   is - n't   so

[Chorus]
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I'm an educated man, to get more sense within my head I plan  [ Fill2 ]
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Well, I've been on earth so long, and  I    used to sing a lit -tle song
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While all of them old timers took their stand

[Instrumental]

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[Verse 3]
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Queen Elizabeth fell dead in love with me, (hee, hee, she did)
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We was married in Mil-wauk-ee sec- ret - ly
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Then I took her out and shook her, and  I    went with General  Hooker
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To fight mosquitoes down in Tenn-ess-  ee.

[Verse 4]
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I taught Solomon his little A B C's (smart feller)
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And through all his books, I   tutored him with ease
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Then I sailed out on the bay with Methuselah one  day
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And I played with his flowing whiskers in   the   breeze

[Chorus]
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I'm an educated man, to get more sense within my head I plan [ Fill2 ]
           G                G7    G7/A G7/B C              C/B C/Bb A7
Well, I've been on earth so long, and  I    used to sing a lit -tle song
      D7                     D7/E D7/F# G
While all of them old timers took their stand


[Instrumental]

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[Verse 5]
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I seen old Satan when he searched that Garden o'er, (old bugger)
G                 A7          A7/B  D7
Saw Adam and Eve driven from the   door
       G                G7         G/A G/B C         C/B C/Bb A7
When the apples they were eating, from the bushes I was a-peeping
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I can prove it for I'm  the man that ate  the   core

[Verse 6]
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I saw Cain when he killed Abel with a spade  [ Fill1 ]
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And I know the game was poker that they played
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I was hid behind the shrub when he slapped him with that club
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Poor old Abel caught him a-cheatin' and now  he's  dead

[Chorus]

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I'm an educated man, to get more sense within my head I plan  [ Fill2 ]
           G                G7    G7/A G7/B C              C/B C/Bb A7
Well, I've been on earth so long, and  I    used to sing a lit -tle song
      D7                     D7/E D7/F# G
While all of them old timers took their stand