《Free & Equal Blues》歌词

[00:00:00] Free & Equal Blues - Josh White

[00:00:02] Written By：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

[00:00:33] 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

[00:00:48] 'Cause ever since that day we've had those

[00:00:51] Free and equal blues

[00:00:57] You mean you heard that doctor declare

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

[00:01:02] White man black man yellow man red

[00:01:05] 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

[00:01:12] And spoke out plain and clear and rational he says

[00:01:15] Metabolism's international

[00:01:17] And that was news yes that was news

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

[00:01:25] 'Cause ever since that day we've had those

[00:01:28] Free and equal blues

[00:01:34] Then he rigged up his microscope with some royal

[00:01:35] Blue blood

[00:01:36] It was the same as Chun King Chatanooga-Timbuktu blood

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

[00:01:44] And international racial supremacy

[00:01:45] Flying in the face of old man chemistry

[00:01:47] Taking all the facts and trying to twist 'em

[00:01:50] But you can't overthrow the circulatory system

[00:01:52] And that was news yes that was news

[00:01:56] That was very very very special news

[00:01:59] 'Cause ever since that day we've had those

[00:02:02] Free and equal blues

[00:02:08] So I stayed at that St. James Infirmary

[00:02:13] I couldn't leave that place it was too interesting

[00:02:16] So I said to that doc

[00:02:17] Give me some more of that scientific talk talk

[00:02:19] And he did

[00:02:20] He said Melt yourself down into a crucible

[00:02:22] Pour yourself out into a test tube and what have you got

[00:02:25] 35 cubic feet of gas that's the same for the upper and

[00:02:28] Lower class

[00:02:28] Well I let that pass

[00:02:33] Carbon 22 pounds 10 ounces

[00:02:38] Carbon 22 pounds 10 ounces

[00:02:40] Iron seven grains not enough to keep a man in chains

[00:02:54] 50 ounces of phosphorous whether your poor or prosperous

[00:02:58] Hey buddy can you spare a match

[00:03:03] For all nations

[00:03:04] Then you take 22 teaspoons of sodium cloride that's salt

[00:03:07] You add 38 quarts of H20 that's water

[00:03:09] Mix two ounces of lime a pinch of potash a

[00:03:12] Drop of magnesia

[00:03:13] A bit of sulphur a soup'con of hydrochloric acid

[00:03:16] And you stir it all up and what are you

[00:03:18] You're a walkin' drugstore An international

[00:03:21] Metabolistic cartel

[00:03:24] And that was news yes that was news

[00:03:27] So listen you African Indian Mexican Mongolian Tyrolean and Tartar

[00:03:34] The doctor's right behind the magna charter

[00:03:40] The doc's behind the new brotherhood of man

[00:03:45] As prescribed at Gettysburg Iwo Jima at Bull Run and at Guadalcanal

[00:03:54] Every man every where is the same when he got

[00:04:00] His skin off

[00:04:03] And that's the news that's the news

[00:04:06] That's the free and equal blues