Free And Equal Blues chords by 
Josh White 
N/A
Key: C minor•
Verse 1
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Cm
Ab
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I went
down to that
St.
James infirmary,
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and I saw some plasma there.
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I upset asked the doctor, man,
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now was the donor dark or fair?
The doctor laughed, a great big laugh,
and he puffed it right in my face.
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Eb
He said, a molecule is a molecule, son,
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and the damn thing has no race.
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Cm
And that was news, sing it.
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Cm
Yes, that was news.
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That was very, very, very special news.
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Cause ever since that day we've had
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G
those three and equal blues
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G
Eb
You mean you heard that doctor de clare
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That the plasma in that test
tube there could be
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White man, black man,
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Fm
yellow man, red?
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That's just what that doctor said
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G
The doc put down his doctor
book and gave me a very scientific look
And he spoke out plain
and clear and rational
He said, metabolism is international
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And that was news , yes that was news,
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that was very, very, very special news
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Cause ever since that day we've
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C
had those pre -and -equal blues
Then the
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Doc rigged up his microscope with some
Berlin blue blood
And by gosh it was the same as
Chunk
Kane,
Kuiper
Shelf,
Chat
Milk, or
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Tim buktu blood
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While those men who think they're noble don't even
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know that the core puzzle is global
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Tried disuniting us with their racial supremacy, and flying in the face of old man chemistry,
and taking all the facts and trying to twist them.
But you can't overthrow the
circulatory system, get it?
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G
And that was news ,
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yes that was news.
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That was very, very, very special news.
G
Cause ever since that day we've
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C
had those free and equal blues.
G
So I stayed at that
St.
James
Infirmary I couldn't leave that
place, it was too interesting
But I said to the doctor, give me some more
of that scientific talk talk, and he did
He said, melt yourself down into a crucible,
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pour yourself out into a test tube, and what have you got?
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3 ,500 cubic feet of gas,
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G
that's the same for the up and lower class
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G
Well, I let that pass
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G
Carbon, 22 pounds,
10 ounces.
You mean that goes for princes, dukes, and
councils?
Whatever you are, that's what the
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mouth says.
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Car bon, 22 pounds, 10 ounces.
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Iron, 57 grain s.
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Not enough to keep a man in chains.
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500 ounces of phosphor,
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that's whether you're poor or prosperous.
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Hey buddy, can you spare a match?
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Sugar, 60 ordinary lumps, free
and equal rations for all nations.
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You take 22 teaspoons of sodium
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chlor ide, that's salt.
You add 38 quarts of
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H2O, that's water.
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Mix two ounces of lime, a pinch of chloride,
a potash, a drop of magnesium, a bit of sulfur.
Add our soups and hydrochloric acid
and you stir it all up.
And what are you?
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G
You're a walking drug store.
It's an international metabolistic cartel.
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And that was news .
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Yes, that was news.
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Now you change it.
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So listen, you
African and
Indian and
Mexican,
Mongolian,
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Tarolean and
C
Tartar.
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F
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The doctors right be hind the
Atlantic
C
Charter.
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The docs be hind the
New
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Broth er hood of
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Men.
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As prescribed at
San
Francis co and
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C
York shire,
Dumbarton,
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Oaks, and at
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Pots dam,
Every man, everywhere,
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C
is the same when he's got his skin off.
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Cm
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And that's the news , yes, that's the news ,
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Bb
that's the free and equal blues.
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