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Free And Equal Blues chords by 
Earl Robinson
N/A•
Verse 1
Em
E
B
I went down to the St. James Infirmary,
Em
and I saw some plasma there,
blood plasma.
A
I ups and asked the doctor, man, was
B
Em
the donor dark or fair?
E
B
The doctor laughed a great big laugh,
G
A
and he puffed it right in my face.
B
He says, a molecule is a molecule,
son,
and the damn thing has no race.
Em
B
Em
And that was news, yes that was news
G
Oh, that was very, very,
D
Em
very special news
B
Cause ever since that day
E
A
B
I've got those free and equal blues
Em
E
B
E
You mean you heard that doc declare
Em
The plasma in that test tube there
E
A
B
Could be white man, black man,
D
yellow man, red.
Dm
That's what he said.
B
The doc puts down his doctor book
and gives me a very scientific
look.
A
He speaks out plain and
Am
clear and rational.
G
B
Metabolism is international.
E
And that was news.
B
Em
Yes, that was news.
G
Oh, that was very, very,
D
Em
very special news.
F#m
B
Cause ever since that day,
I've got those free and
E
A
G
Em
equal blues.
E
Em
Yes, he rigged up his microscope
E
F#m
B
E
Em
with some Berlin blue blood.
E
A
And by gosh, it was the same as Chung, King,
B
C
B
Am
Kuip, Shev, Shattanooga, Timbuktu blood.
B
Why, them Aryans thought they
were noble.
They didn't even know
the corpuscle was global.
Am
G
E
Try in' to disunite us
B
with their racist supremacy
Fly in the face of old man chemistry
E
A
E
Takin' all the facts and
B
tryin' to twist them
But you can't overthrow
E
B
G
the circulatory system
B
E
Em
And that was news
B
E
Em
Yes, that was news
G
Oh, that was very, very,
D
B
Em
very special news
B
Cause ever since that day
I've got those free and equal
E
A
G#m
Am
G
E
blues
Em
E
B
A
G
So I stayed at that St. James infirmary.
E
Em
E
I wasn't going to leave that
place.
C
Am
This was too interesting.
G
I said to the doc,
C
G
C
give me some more of that scientific talk talk.
Am
G
And he did.
C
G
He said, melt yourself down into
Am
a crucible.
G
Pour yourself out into a
test tube.
And what do you got?
B
E
B
3 ,500 cubic feet of gas.
E
A
The same for the upper and the lower class.
E
B
Well, we'll let that pass.
Carbon, 22 pounds, 10 ounces.
F#
You mean that goes for princes,
B
G
dukes, and counts?
B
Whatever you are,
G
B
that's what the amounts is.
G
B
F#m
D
E
Carbon, 22 pounds, 10 ounces. iron 57 grains
B
A
Am
A
Am
Em
not enough to keep a man in chains
E
G
E
A
50 ounces of phosphorus
E
A
whether you're poor or
Am
Em
prosperous buddy
A
Am
E
Am
E
can you spare a match then you take
A
E
Em
20 teaspoonfuls of sodium chloride
F#
B
that's salt mix with 38 quarts of h2o that's water,
G
A
Am
take 60 lumps of sugar, that's sugar, add two ounces of lime,
B
a pinch of chloride of potash,
C
a drop of magnesium, a bit of sulfur,
E
B
a soups on a hydrochloric acid
and you stir it all up and what are you?
E
B
A walking drugstore,
E
an international chemical cartel
B
E
and that's the news
yes that's the news
Em
so listen you African and Indian
and Mexican
E
B
E
Mongolian Tyrolean and Totter
Em
A
E
Am
C
D
the doctors right behind the human rights charter the docks behind the new brotherhood
E
B
E
of man as prescribed to San Francisco and Geneva and Bandung, where peace began.
B
E
Makes no difference if you're Kelly,
if you're Cohen,
if you're Lopez,
A
E
if you're Swenson, Jones, or Litvinov.
A
F#
B
Every man everywhere is the same
E
when he's got his skin off.
And that's the news.
B
E
Yes, that's the news,
G
D
E
that's the free and equal news.
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