[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:02.79]'Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago [01:01.84]When a young boy from Chicago town [01:07.00]Stepped through a Southern door [01:10.85]This boy's dreadful tragedy [01:15.48]I can still remember well [01:19.27]The color of his skin was black [01:24.36]And his name was Emmett Till [01:28.16]Some men they dragged him to a barn [01:35.36]And there they beat him up [01:38.70]They said they had a reason [01:42.97]But I disremember what [01:47.12]They tortured him and [01:50.84]Did some evil things too evil to [01:54.67]Repeat [01:55.63]There was screaming sounds inside the barn [02:00.22]There was laughing sounds out on the street [02:04.09]Then they rolled his body [02:10.09]Down a gulf amidst a blood-red rain [02:15.24]And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his [02:22.20]Screaming pain [02:22.98]The reason that they killed him there [02:28.24]And I'm sure it ain't no lie [02:32.13]He was a black-skinned boy  so [02:38.53]He was born to die [02:40.32]And then to stop the United States [02:47.29]Of yelling for a trial [02:51.08]Two brothers they confessed [02:54.95]That they had killed poor [02:58.30]Emmett Till [02:59.50]But on the jury there were men [03:04.09]Who helped the brothers [03:06.58]Commit this awful crime [03:07.90]And so this trial was a mockery [03:12.40]But nobody seemed to mind [03:16.01]I saw the morning papers [03:23.06]But I could not bear to see [03:28.79]The smiling brothers walkin' down [03:33.11]The courthouse stairs [03:35.56]For the jury found them innocent [03:39.89]And the brothers they went free [03:43.50]While Emmett's body floats the foam [03:48.47]Of a Jim Crow southern sea [03:52.00]If you can't speak out against this kind of thing [03:58.71]A crime that's so unjust [04:02.45]Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt [04:06.47]Your mind is filled with dust [04:10.39]Your arms and legs they [04:14.09]Must be in shackles and chains [04:15.88]And your blood it must refuse to flow [04:18.89]For you let this human race fall [04:24.78]Down so God-awful low [04:27.68]This song is just a reminder [04:33.52]To remind your fellow man [04:37.41]That this kind of thing still lives today in that [04:44.21]Ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan [04:46.29]But if all us folks that thinks alike [04:50.55]If we gave all we could give [04:54.45]We could make this great land of ours [04:59.04]A greater place to live