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