The Atomic Talking Blues chords by
Oscar Brand
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Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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I'm Oscar Brand,
welcoming you this evening to Newport,
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the storm center of New England.
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I'd like to sing for you
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Verne Partlow's Atomic
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Talking Blues,
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which I learned 32nd hand.
I'm going to preach you a sermon
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by an old man, Adam,
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and I don't mean the Adam in the Bible,
Dr. Adam.
Don't mean the Adam that
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Mother Eve made it,
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but I do mean the Adam science liberated.
You know Einstein said he was scared.
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Einstein says he's scared.
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I get scared.
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Green is not my natural complexion
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Stop the world. I want to get off
Scared of the atom bomb
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all you got to do is get the
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people in the world
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together with you
because if you don't get
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Together and do it.
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Well one of these days
you're gonna get shot to hell
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and that is no future for
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a growing boy
The moral of my sermon
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I'm trying to say
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is that the atom bomb is here to stay,
it's gonna stay fixed,
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that's plain to see,
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but all my dearly beloveds are we.
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We hold these truths to
be self -evident,
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all men can be cremated equal.
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You know, life used to be a simple joy,
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and the cyclotron a super toy.
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You get born and live and
sometimes marry,
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and atom was a word in the dictionary,
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but it was one of them four -let
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ter words
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they're always talking about.
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And some science boys from every clime,
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they got together and
they worked for overtime.
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Worked and they worked,
and when they were done with it,
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harnessed up the power of
the doggone sun,
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they were splitting atoms.
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You could hear them in the universities,
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hey mama, look, I'm splitting an atom.
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The diplomats are still splitting hair.
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Then the jingo boys,
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they put on a show
to turn back the clock on the UNO
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to get a corner on atoms,
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maybe extinguish every doggone atom
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that couldn't speak English.
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Down with fern -born Adams,
they said,
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America's for American Adams.
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But the Adams International,
spite of hysteria,
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flourishes in Utah and even Siberia.
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And whether you're black, white,
red, or brown,
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the question is the same
when you boil it down.
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To be or not to be,
that is the question.
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It isn't a question of military data.
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who gets their fussedest
with the mustache Adams?
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It's the people of the world
must decide their fate.
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Stick together or disintegrate.
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It's up to the people
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because the atom don't care
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He just flits around as free as the air
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He doesn't give a darn about politics
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Or who gets whom into whatever fix
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All he wants to do is sit around
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And have his nucleus
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bombarded by neutrons
Well I've come to the end
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I hope I made it clear
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About what you've got
to do
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and what you've got to fear
I'm finished now
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Here's my thesis
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Peace in the world
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or the world in pieces
Thank you.

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