《Free And Equal Blues(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:00] Free And Equal Blues (LP版) - Josh White

[00:00:07] I went down to that St James Infirmary

[00:00:11] I saw some plasma there

[00:00:15] I up'd and asked that doctor man

[00:00:17] Now was the donor dark or fair

[00:00:21] The doctor laughed a great big laugh

[00:00:24] And he puffed it right in my face

[00:00:26] He says

[00:00:26] A molecule is a molecule son

[00:00:29] And the d**n thing has no race

[00:00:32] And that was news yes that was news

[00:00:36] That was very very very special news

[00:00:39] 'Cause ever since that day we've had those

[00:00:41] Free and equal blues

[00:00:46] I never knew that in a plasma

[00:00:48] Test tube there could be

[00:00:50] White man black man yellow man red

[00:00:53] Well that's just what that doctor said

[00:00:55] So he put down his doctor book

[00:00:56] Gave me a very scientific look

[00:00:57] And spoke out plain and clear and rational and said

[00:01:00] Metabolism's international

[00:01:02] And that was news that was news

[00:01:06] That was very very very special news

[00:01:09] 'Cause ever since that day we've had those

[00:01:12] Free and equal blues

[00:01:17] Then he rigged up his microscope with some royal blue blood

[00:01:20] It was the same as chun king

[00:01:22] Queeker chap coscow chatanooga timbuktu blood

[00:01:24] Those men think they know the corpuscle's global

[00:01:26] And international racial supremacy

[00:01:28] Flying in the face of old man chemistry

[00:01:30] Taking all the facts and trying to twist 'em

[00:01:32] But you can't overthrow the circulatory system

[00:01:36] And that was news that was news

[00:01:39] That was very very very special news

[00:01:42] 'Cause ever since that day we've had those

[00:01:44] Free and equal blues

[00:01:49] So I stayed at that St James Infirmary

[00:01:55] I couldn't leave that place it was too interesting

[00:01:57] So I said to that doc

[00:01:58] Give me some more of that scientific talk talk

[00:02:00] And he did

[00:02:00] He said Melt yourself down into a crucible

[00:02:02] Pour yourself out into a test tube and what have you got

[00:02:04] 35 cubic feet of gas

[00:02:06] That's the same for the upper and lower class

[00:02:08] Well I let that pass

[00:02:11] Carbon 22 pounds 10 ounces

[00:02:13] In the looks countes to mountes

[00:02:15] Carbon 22 pounds 10 ounces

[00:02:17] Iron seven grains

[00:02:19] Not enough to keep

[00:02:22] A man

[00:02:24] In chains

[00:02:29] 50 ounces of phosphorous whether your poor or prosperous

[00:02:33] Hey buddy can you spare a match

[00:02:35] Sarfe six orelen sweeving freedom arones

[00:02:38] Then you take 22 teaspoons of so dium cloride that's salt

[00:02:41] You add 38 quarts of H20 that's water

[00:02:43] Mix two ounces of lime a pinch of potash

[00:02:45] A drop of magnesia

[00:02:47] A bit of sulphur a soup'con of hydrochloric acid

[00:02:50] And you stir it all up what are you

[00:02:52] You're a walkin' drugstore

[00:02:54] An international metabolistic cartel

[00:02:58] And that was news that was news

[00:03:01] So listen you African Indian Mexican Mongolian Tyrolean and Tartar

[00:03:06] The doctor's right behind the magna charter

[00:03:12] The doc's behind the new brotherhood of man

[00:03:16] As prescribed at Gettysburg

[00:03:18] Iwo Jima at Bull Run and at Guadalcanal

[00:03:23] Every man every where is the same

[00:03:27] When he got his skin off

[00:03:31] And that's the news that's the news

[00:03:34] That's the free and equal blues