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[00:10.74]The Death of Emmett Till
[00:26.29]'Twas down in Mississippi
[00:31.43]Not so long ago
[00:35.68]When a young boy from Chicago Town
[00:40.46]Walk in a southern door
[00:45.72]This boy's fateful tragedy
[00:49.92]We should all remember well
[00:54.08]The color of his skin was black
[00:58.48]And his name was Emmett Till
[01:03.31]Some men they dragged him to a barn
[01:08.56]And there they beat him up
[01:12.27]They said they had a reason
[01:16.71]But I disremember what
[01:21.77]They tortured him and did some things
[01:26.51]Too evil to repeat
[01:30.77]There was screamin' sounds inside the barn
[01:35.37]There was laughin' sound out on the street
[01:42.13]They dragged his body to a gulch
[01:46.71]Amidst a bloodred rain
[01:51.32]And they through him in the waters wide
[01:56.07]To sease his screaming pain
[02:00.45]The reason that they killed him there
[02:05.01]And I'm sure it ain't no lie
[02:09.81]He was a blackskin boy
[02:14.03]So he was born to die
[02:20.85]And so to stop these United States
[02:25.39]Of yelling for a trial
[02:29.91]Two brothers they confessed that they
[02:34.48]Killed poor Emmett Till
[02:38.69]But on the jury there were men
[02:42.96]Who helped the brother commit this awful crime
[02:48.01]And so this trial was a mockery
[02:52.49]But nobody seemed to mind
[02:59.30]I saw the morning paper
[03:04.65]But I could not bear
[03:08.28]To see the brothers smiling
[03:12.76]On that courthouse stairs
[03:17.22]For the jury found them innocent
[03:21.74]And the brothers they went free
[03:26.28]Whilt Emmett's body floats the foam
[03:30.78]Of a Jim Crow southern sea
[03:37.52]If you can't speak out against this kind of thing
[03:41.97]A crime that's so unjust
[03:45.93]Your eyes are filled with deadman's dirt
[03:51.04]Your mind is filled with dust
[03:55.39]Your arms and legs
[03:57.38]They must be in shackles and chains
[03:59.83]And your blood it must cease to flow
[04:04.30]For you'd let this human race
[04:08.72]Sick so God awful low
[04:15.43]This song is just a reminder
[04:19.92]To tell my fellow man
[04:24.40]That this kind of thing still lives today
[04:33.46]In that ghost robed Klu Klux Klan
[04:37.33]But if we all then think alike
[04:42.37]If we give all we can give
[05:07.75]We'd make this Great land of ours
[05:16.72]An even greater place to live
文本歌词
The Death of Emmett Till
'Twas down in Mississippi
Not so long ago
When a young boy from Chicago Town
Walk in a southern door
This boy's fateful tragedy
We should all remember well
The color of his skin was black
And his name was Emmett Till
Some men they dragged him to a barn
And there they beat him up
They said they had a reason
But I disremember what
They tortured him and did some things
Too evil to repeat
There was screamin' sounds inside the barn
There was laughin' sound out on the street
They dragged his body to a gulch
Amidst a bloodred rain
And they through him in the waters wide
To sease his screaming pain
The reason that they killed him there
And I'm sure it ain't no lie
He was a blackskin boy
So he was born to die
And so to stop these United States
Of yelling for a trial
Two brothers they confessed that they
Killed poor Emmett Till
But on the jury there were men
Who helped the brother commit this awful crime
And so this trial was a mockery
But nobody seemed to mind
I saw the morning paper
But I could not bear
To see the brothers smiling
On that courthouse stairs
For the jury found them innocent
And the brothers they went free
Whilt Emmett's body floats the foam
Of a Jim Crow southern sea
If you can't speak out against this kind of thing
A crime that's so unjust
Your eyes are filled with deadman's dirt
Your mind is filled with dust
Your arms and legs
They must be in shackles and chains
And your blood it must cease to flow
For you'd let this human race
Sick so God awful low
This song is just a reminder
To tell my fellow man
That this kind of thing still lives today
In that ghost robed Klu Klux Klan
But if we all then think alike
If we give all we can give
We'd make this Great land of ours
An even greater place to live
