The Atomic Talking Blues Chords

Lyrics & chords

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