《Free And Equal Blues(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:01] free and equal blues - josh white

[00:00:09] i went down to that st. james infirmary

[00:00:14] i saw some plasma there

[00:00:18] i up'd and asked that doctor man

[00:00:21] now was the donor dark or fair

[00:00:26] the doctor laughed a great big laugh

[00:00:30] and he puffed it right in my face

[00:00:32] he says, "a molecule is a molecule son,

[00:00:37] and the damn thing has no race."

[00:00:41] and that was news, yes that was news

[00:00:45] that was very very very special news

[00:00:49] 'cause ever since that day we've had those

[00:00:52] free and equal blues

[00:00:59] i never knew that in a plasma

[00:01:01] test tube there could be

[00:01:03] white man, black man, yellow man, red,

[00:01:06] well, that's just what that doctor said,

[00:01:09] so he put down his doctor book

[00:01:10] and he gave me a very scientific look

[00:01:11] and spoke out plain and clear and rational, and said,

[00:01:15] "metabolism's international"

[00:01:16] and that was news, that was news

[00:01:22] that was very very very special news

[00:01:26] 'cause ever since that day we've had those

[00:01:29] free and equal blues

[00:01:34] then he rigged up his microscope with some royal blue blood

[00:01:37] it was the same as chun king-moscow-chatanooga-timbuktu blood

[00:01:41] those men think they know the corpuscle's global

[00:01:45] and international racial supremacy

[00:01:46] flying in the face of old man chemistry,

[00:01:49] taking all the facts and trying to twist 'em

[00:01:51] but you can't overthrow the circulatory system

[00:01:54] and that was news, that was news

[00:01:58] that was very very very special news

[00:02:02] 'cause ever since that day we've had those

[00:02:05] free and equal blues

[00:02:10] so i stayed at that st. james infirmary

[00:02:16] i couldn't leave that place, it was too interesting

[00:02:18] so i said to that doc,

[00:02:19] "give me some more of that "scientific talk" talk

[00:02:21] and he did,

[00:02:22] he said, "melt yourself down into a crucible,

[00:02:25] pour yourself out into a test tube and what have you got?

[00:02:27] 35 cubic feet of gas, that's the same for the upper and lower class"

[00:02:33] well, i let that pass

[00:02:36] carbon, 22 pounds 10 ounces. . .

[00:02:44] carbon, 22 pounds 10 ounces. . .

[00:02:49] iron, seven grains; not enough to keep a man in chains

[00:02:59] 50 ounces of phosphorous, whether your poor or prosperous,

[00:03:02] hey buddy, can you spare a match

[00:03:06] the same for all nations

[00:03:09] then you take 22 teaspoons of sodium cloride, that's salt,

[00:03:12] you add 38 quarts of h20, that's water

[00:03:14] mix two ounces of lime, a pinch of potash, a drop of magnesia,

[00:03:17] a bit of sulphur, a soup'con of hydrochloric acid

[00:03:20] and you stir it all up and what are you?

[00:03:24] you're a walkin' drugstore. an international metabolistic cartel."

[00:03:32] and that was news, that was news

[00:03:35] so listen you african, indian, mexican, mongolian, tyrolean and tartar

[00:03:43] the doctor's right behind the magna charter

[00:03:50] the doc's behind the new brotherhood of man

[00:03:55] as prescribed at gettysburg, iwo jima, at bull run, and at guadalcanal

[00:04:03] "every man, every where is the same... when he got his skin off"

[00:04:14] and that's the news, that's the news

[00:04:18] that's the free and equal blues"