《Free And Equal Blues(LP版)》歌词

歌曲： Free And Equal Blues(LP版)

所属专辑：The Best Of Josh White

歌手： Josh White

时长： 03:49

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

free and equal blues[00:00:52]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

free and equal blues[00:01:29]

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

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

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

and international racial supremacy[00:01:45]

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

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

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

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

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

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

free and equal blues[00:02:05]

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

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

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

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

and he did,[00:02:21]

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 lower class"[00:02:27]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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