[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:20.09]Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago [00:29.43]When a young boy from Chicago walked through a southern door [00:39.52]This boy's dreadful tragedy they should all remember well [00:47.97]The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till [00:59.83]Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up [01:09.11]They said they had a reason but I disremember what [01:18.03]They tortured him and did some things too evil to repeat [01:27.53]There was screaming sounds inside the barn there was laughing sounds out on the street [01:37.93]Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain [01:47.16]And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain [01:56.22]The reason that they killed him there and I'm sure it was no lie [02:05.37]Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die [02:14.71]And then to stop the united states of yelling for a trial [02:23.63]Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till [02:32.40]But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime [02:41.57]And so this trial was a mockery but nobody seemed to mind [02:51.99]I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see [03:02.02]The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs [03:10.24]For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free [03:19.29]While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea [03:30.62]If you can't speak out against this kind of thing a crime that's so unjust [03:39.83]Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt your mind is filled with dust [03:48.87]Your arms and legs they must be in shackles [03:52.26]And chains and your blood it must refuse to flow [03:57.77]For you to let this human race fall down so God awful low [04:06.90]This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man [04:15.79]That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost robed Ku Klux Klan [04:24.91]But if all of us folks that thinks alike [04:29.18]If we gave all we could give [04:33.83]We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live