The Atomic Talking Blues
The Atomic Talking Blues

The Atomic Talking Blues easy guitar chords by Oscar Brand

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 1

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  • G

  • C

  • D

  • G

  • C

  • D

  • Verse 1
    I'm 
    Oscar Brand, 

    welcoming 
    you this evening 
    to 
    Newport, 


    the storm 
    center of 
    New England. 

    I'd 
    like 
    to sing 
    for you 

    Verne 
    Partlow's 
    Atomic 

    Talk
    ing Blues, 

    which I 
    learned 32nd 
    hand. 

    I'm 
    going to 
    preach you 
    a sermon 

    by 
    an old man, 
    Adam, 

    and I 
    don't mean 
    the Adam in 
    the 
    Bib
    le, 

    Dr. Adam. 

    Don't mean 
    the Adam that 

    Mother Eve 
    made it, 

    but I 
    do mean 
    the 
    Adam science 
    liberated. 

    You 
    know Einstein 
    said 
    he was scared. 

    Einstein says 
    he's 
    scared. 

    I get 
    scared. 

    Green 
    is not my 
    natural 
    complex
    ion 

    Stop 
    the 
    world. 
    I want 
    to get off 

    Scared of 
    the atom bomb 

    all you got 
    to do is get 
    the 

    people in 
    the world 

    togeth
    er with 
    you 

    because if 
    you don't get 

    Together and 
    do 
    it. 

    Well 
    one 
    of these 
    days 

    you're gonna 
    get shot to 
    hell 

    and 
    that is no future 
    for 

    a growing boy 

    The 
    moral 
    of my 
    sermon 

    I'm 
    trying to 
    say 

    is that the 
    atom bomb 
    is 
    here to 
    stay, 

    it's 
    gonna stay 
    fixed, 

    that's 
    plain to 
    see, 

    but 
    all my 
    dearly beloveds 
    are we. 

    We 
    hold these 
    truths to 

    be self 
    -evident, 

    all men 
    can be 
    cremated 
    equal. 

    You know, 
    life used 
    to be a 
    simple joy, 

    and the 
    cyclotron 
    super toy. 

    You get born 
    and 
    live and 

    sometimes 
    marry, 

    and 
    atom was 
    a word in 
    the dictionary, 

    but 
    it was one of 
    them 
    four 
    -let

    ter words 

    they're always 
    talking 
    about. 

    And 
    some 
    science 
    boys from 
    every clime, 


    they got 
    to
    gether and 

    they worked for 
    overtime. 

    Worked 
    and they 
    worked, 

    and when they 
    were done with 
    it, 

    harnessed up 
    the power of 

    the doggone 
    sun, 

    they were 
    splitting 
    atoms. 

    You 
    could hear them 
    in the universities, 


    hey mama, 
    look, 
    I'm splitting 
    an atom. 

    The 
    diplomats 
    are still 
    splitting 
    hair. 

    Then 
    the jingo 
    boys, 

    they put on a 
    show 

    to turn 
    back the 
    clock on 
    the UNO 

    to get 
    corner on 
    atoms, 

    maybe extinguish 
    every 
    doggone 
    atom 

    that 
    couldn't speak 
    English. 

    Down 
    with 
    fern -born 
    Adam
    s, 

    they said, 

    America's 
    for American 
    Adams. 

    But 
    the Adams Internation
    al, 


    spite of hysteria, 

    flourishes 
    in Utah 
    and 
    even Siberia. 

    And 
    whether you're 
    black, white, 

    red, or brown, 

    the 
    question is 
    the same 

    when 
    you boil it 
    down. 

    To 
    be 
    or 
    not 
    to be, 

    that is 
    the question. 

    It 
    isn't a 
    question of 
    mil
    itary data. 

    who 
    gets their 
    fussedest 

    with the mustache 
    Adams? 

    It's 
    the people of 
    the 
    world 

    must 
    decide their 
    fate. 

    Stick together 
    or 
    disintegrate. 

    It's 
    up to 
    the people 

    because 
    the atom don't 
    care 

    He 
    just flits 
    around as 
    free as 
    the air 

    He 
    doesn't give a 
    darn about 
    politics 

    Or who 
    gets 
    whom into 
    whatever fix 

    All 
    he 
    want
    s to do 
    is sit around 

    An
    d have 
    his nucleus 

    bombarded 
    by 
    neutrons 

    Well 
    I've 
    come to 
    the end 

    hope I made 
    it clear 

    About 
    what you've got 

    to do 

    and what you've 
    got to fear 

    I'm 
    finished 
    now 

    Here's 
    my thesis 

    Peace 
    in 
    the world 

    or 
    the world in 
    pieces 

    Thank 
    you. 

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