Chords for Free & Equal Blues Pt 1 & 2 - Josh White

[G#] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [Bm] _ [F#] _ _ I [Bm] went down to that [Bm] St.
James _ infirmary, _ _ _ and I saw some [F#] plasma _ there.
_ [G] _ I [F#] upped and asked [Bm] the doctor man, [G] now was the [F#m] doughnut [Bm] dark or fair?
[F#] _ _ _ [Bm] The [C#m] doctor [Bm] laughed a great [F#m] big laugh, _ [Bm] and he puffed it right in [F#] my face.
_ He [G] says a [F#] molecule is [Bm] a molecule, son, _ [G] and the darn [B] thing has no _ [F#] race.
[B] And that was [F#] news, [Bm] yes that was news, that [D] was very, very, very special news.
[E] Cause ever since that day [F#] we've had those free and equal [B] blues.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] You mean you heard that Dr.
Clair, [Bm] that the plasma in that test tube there could be white man, black man, [Em] yellow man, red?
[B] That's just what that [F#m] doctor said.
[Bm] _ [F#] _ So [Bm] he put down his doctor book, and he gave me a very scientific look, and [G] he spoke out plain [F#] and clear and rational.
He [G] says metabolism [F#m] is international, [B] _
_ [C#m] and [Bm] that was news, yes that was news, _ [D] that was very, very, very special news.
_ [F#] Cause ever since that day we've had [C#] those free and [B] equal [G#m] blues.
[Bm] _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] Then he rigged up his microscope with some royal blue blood.
It was [C#m] the same as [B] Chung, King, Kuiper, Shep, Chattanooga, Timbuktu blood.
Those [G] men who think they're noble, [F#] the core puzzle is [B] global, and [F#] disunites of the race and [B] supremacy, flying in [E] the face of old man chemistry, [G] and taking all the [C#m] facts and trying to twist them.
[A] But you can't overthrow the circulatory system.
[Bm] And that was news, yes that was news, that [D] was very, very, very special news.
[F#] Cause [C#] ever since that day [F#m] we've had those free and equal [Bm] blues.
_ [G#m] _ _
_ [D] _ [B] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ So I stayed at [C#m] that St. _
[Bm] James [F#] infirmary.
_ _ [Bm] _
I couldn't leave [F#] that place, it was too interesting.
_ So I said [G] to the doc, give me some [Bm] more of that scientific talk talk, and [F#] he did.
[G] He says melt [F#] yourself down into a crucible, and pour [G] yourself out into a [F#] test tube, and what have you got?
[G] 35 pound [F#m] cubic feet of gas, [G] that's the same for the upper and [F#] lower [G] class.
Well, I'll let [F#m] that pass.
[Bm] _
[F#] _ _ _ [G] Carbon, 22 [F#] pounds, 10 ounces.
[G] You mean that goes [F#] for princes, [B] dukes, and counts, that's what the [F#] mouse says. _
[G] Carbon, [F#m] 22 pounds, 10 ounces.
[G] Iron, 57 grains.
[F#] Not enough to keep _ _ _ [G] a _ _ _ man in [F#] _ _ chain. _ _
_ [D] _ _ [C#] _ [B] _ [F#] 500 ounces of [B] phosphorus, whether you're poor [F#] or prosperous.
_ [Bm] _ Hey buddy, can you [F#] spare a match?
_ [G] Sugar, 60 [F#m] ordinary lumps, free and [G] equal rates for all nations.
[F#m] Then you take [G] 22 teaspoons [B] of sodium chloride, that's salt.
You add 30 quarts of H2O, that's water.
You mix [G] two ounces of lime, a pinch of chloropodash, a drop of magnesium, a bit of sulfur, [E] and a soup of hydrochloric acid, and you stir it all up, and what are you?
[F] You're a walking [C] drug store.
[G] An international metabolistic [F#] cartel. _
_ [Bm] And that was news, yes that was [F#] news.
[B] So listen, you African and Indian, Mexican, Mongolian, Tarolean, and Tartar.
[G] The doctor's right _ [G#] behind the Atlantic Charter.
The [B] _ _ _
[Em] doc's behind the New _ [Bm] Brotherhood of _ _ [F#] Man.
As prescribed [B] by Gettysburg, Iwo Jima, at Bull [F#m] Run, and [B] at _ Guadalcanal.
_ _ Every [Em] man, [G] everywhere, _ is the same [F#] _ when he's got [B] his [A] skin [G] _
[F#m] off.
_ [Bm] And that's the news, yes that's the news.
[D] That's the free and [C#m] _ _ _ equal _ _ _
_ [A#m] [G] blues.
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