Josh White《Free & Equal Blues》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:09.66]I went down to that St. James Infirmary [00:14.64]I saw some plasma there [00:18.80]I up'd and asked that doctor man [00:21.73]Now was the donor dark or fair [00:26.92]The doctor laughed a great big laugh [00:30.86]And he puffed it right in my face [00:33.65]He says A molecule is a molecule son [00:37.49]And the damn thing has no race [00:41.36]And that was news yes that was news [00:45.40]That was very very very special news [00:48.96]'Cause ever since that day we've had those [00:51.84]Free and equal blues [00:57.77]You mean you heard that doctor declare [01:00.41]The plasma test tube there could be [01:02.52]White man black man yellow man red [01:05.89]Well that's just what that doctor said [01:09.29]So he put down his doctor book [01:10.56]And he gave me a very scientific look [01:12.00]And spoke out plain and clear and rational he says [01:15.02]Metabolism's international [01:17.26]And that was news yes that was news [01:22.00]That was very very very special news [01:25.35]'Cause ever since that day we've had those [01:28.04]Free and equal blues [01:34.14]Then he rigged up his microscope with some royal [01:35.82]Blue blood [01:36.58]It was the same as Chun King Chatanooga-Timbuktu blood [01:41.95]Those men think they know the corpuscle's global [01:44.21]And international racial supremacy [01:45.79]Flying in the face of old man chemistry [01:47.96]Taking all the facts and trying to twist 'em [01:50.48]But you can't overthrow the circulatory system [01:52.81]And that was news yes that was news [01:56.65]That was very very very special news [01:59.92]'Cause ever since that day we've had those [02:02.62]Free and equal blues [02:08.33]So I stayed at that St. James Infirmary [02:13.95]I couldn't leave that place it was too interesting [02:16.71]So I said to that doc [02:17.77]Give me some more of that scientific talk talk [02:19.64]And he did [02:20.54]He said Melt yourself down into a crucible [02:22.56]Pour yourself out into a test tube and what have you got [02:25.02]35 cubic feet of gas that's the same for the upper and [02:28.16]Lower class [02:28.91]Well I let that pass [02:33.11]Carbon 22 pounds 10 ounces [02:38.85]Carbon 22 pounds 10 ounces [02:40.19]Iron seven grains not enough to keep a man in chains [02:54.53]50 ounces of phosphorous whether your poor or prosperous [02:58.08]Hey buddy can you spare a match [03:03.19]For all nations [03:04.15]Then you take 22 teaspoons of sodium cloride that's salt [03:07.11]You add 38 quarts of H20 that's water [03:09.61]Mix two ounces of lime a pinch of potash a [03:12.80]Drop of magnesia [03:13.67]A bit of sulphur a soup'con of hydrochloric acid [03:16.38]And you stir it all up and what are you [03:18.70]You're a walkin' drugstore An international [03:21.83]Metabolistic cartel [03:24.51]And that was news yes that was news [03:27.84]So listen you African Indian Mexican Mongolian Tyrolean and Tartar [03:34.43]The doctor's right behind the magna charter [03:40.91]The doc's behind the new brotherhood of man [03:45.82]As prescribed at Gettysburg Iwo Jima at Bull Run and at Guadalcanal [03:54.42]Every man every where is the same when he got [04:00.55]His skin off [04:03.83]And that's the news that's the news [04:06.55]That's the free and equal blues