[ti:Free And Equal Blues]
[ar:Josh White]
[al:25th Anniversary Album]
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[00:00.00]Free and Equal Blues (LP版) - Josh White
[00:07.74]I went down to that St James Infirmary
[00:11.94]I saw some plasma there
[00:15.13]I up'd and asked that doctor man
[00:17.64]Now was the donor dark or fair
[00:21.33]The doctor laughed a great big laugh
[00:24.26]And he puffed it right in my face
[00:26.01]He says
[00:26.89]A molecule is a molecule son
[00:29.74]And the d**n thing has no race
[00:32.98]And that was news yes that was news
[00:36.10]That was very very very special news
[00:39.21]'Cause ever since that day we've had those
[00:41.47]Free and equal blues
[00:46.20]I never knew that in a plasma
[00:48.59]Test tube there could be
[00:50.10]White man black man yellow man red
[00:53.18]Well that's just what that doctor said
[00:55.58]So he put down his doctor book
[00:56.46]Gave me a very scientific look
[00:57.72]And spoke out plain and clear and rational and said
[01:00.51]Metabolism's international
[01:02.84]And that was news that was news
[01:06.77]That was very very very special news
[01:09.83]'Cause ever since that day we've had those
[01:12.04]Free and equal blues
[01:17.67]Then he rigged up his microscope with some royal blue blood
[01:20.52]It was the same as chun king
[01:22.35]Queeker chap coscow chatanooga timbuktu blood
[01:24.65]Those men think they know the corpuscle's global
[01:26.79]And international racial supremacy
[01:28.24]Flying in the face of old man chemistry
[01:30.17]Taking all the facts and trying to twist 'em
[01:32.72]But you can't overthrow the circulatory system
[01:36.00]And that was news that was news
[01:39.18]That was very very very special news
[01:42.29]'Cause ever since that day we've had those
[01:44.47]Free and equal blues
[01:49.76]So I stayed at that St James Infirmary
[01:55.21]I couldn't leave that place it was too interesting
[01:57.50]So I said to that doc
[01:58.47]Give me some more of that scientific talk talk
[02:00.07]And he did
[02:00.98]He said Melt yourself down into a crucible
[02:02.83]Pour yourself out into a test tube and what have you got
[02:04.80]35 cubic feet of gas
[02:06.36]That's the same for the upper and lower class
[02:08.58]Well I let that pass
[02:11.61]Carbon 22 pounds 10 ounces
[02:13.47]In the looks countes to mountes
[02:15.97]Carbon 22 pounds 10 ounces
[02:17.94]Iron seven grains
[02:19.73]Not enough to keep
[02:22.42]A man
[02:24.81]In chains
[02:29.95]50 ounces of phosphorous whether your poor or prosperous
[02:33.19]Hey buddy can you spare a match
[02:35.16]Sarfe six orelen sweeving freedom arones
[02:38.60]Then you take 22 teaspoons of so dium cloride that's salt
[02:41.30]You add 38 quarts of H20 that's water
[02:43.49]Mix two ounces of lime a pinch of potash
[02:45.55]A drop of magnesia
[02:47.12]A bit of sulphur a soup'con of hydrochloric acid
[02:50.02]And you stir it all up what are you
[02:52.30]You're a walkin' drugstore
[02:54.96]An international metabolistic cartel
[02:58.15]And that was news that was news
[03:01.06]So listen you African Indian Mexican Mongolian Tyrolean and Tartar
[03:06.78]The doctor's right behind the magna charter
[03:12.36]The doc's behind the new brotherhood of man
[03:16.45]As prescribed at Gettysburg
[03:18.47]Iwo Jima at Bull Run and at Guadalcanal
[03:23.39]Every man every where is the same
[03:27.70]When he got his skin off
[03:31.59]And that's the news that's the news
[03:34.04]That's the free and equal blues