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