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I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago

This version of I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago was released by Elvis Presley in 1972.

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I saw old pharaoh’s daughter bring Moses from the water
I’ll lick the guy that says it isn’t so

I was born about ten thousand years ago
There ain’t nothing in this world that I don’t know
I saved king David’s life and he offered me a wife
I said now you’re talking business have a chair

Yeah, I was born about ten thousand years ago
Ain’t nothing in this world that I don’t know
Saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring around the roses
I’ll lick the guy that says it isn’t so

I was born about ten thousand years ago
Ain’t nothing in this world that I don’t know
I saw old pharaoh’s daughter bring Moses from the water
I’ll lick the guy that says it isn’t so

I was there when old Noah built the ark
And I crawled in the window after dark
I saw Jonah eat the whale and dance with the lion’s tale
And I crossed over Canaan on a log

I was born about ten thousand years ago
Ain’t nothing in this world that I don’t know
I saw old pharaoh’s daughter bring Moses from the water
I’ll lick the guy that says it isn’t so

Yeah, I was born about ten thousand years ago
Ain’t nothing in this world that I don’t know
Saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring around the roses
I’ll lick the guy that says it isn’t so

I was there when old Noah built the ark
And I crawled in the window after dark
I saw Jonah eat the whale and dance with the lion’s tale
And I crossed over Canaan on a log

I was born about ten thousand years ago
There ain’t nothing in this world that I don’t know
I saved king David’s life and he offered me a wife
I said now you’re talking business have a chair

Yeah, I was born about ten thousand years ago
Ain’t nothing in this world that I don’t know
Saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring around the roses
I’ll lick the guy that says it isn’t so

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The lyrics for I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Elvis Presley. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago - Elvis Presley and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago by Elvis Presley in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago" means the words set to the music of I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elvis Presley. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago and the lyrics to I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elvis Presley who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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