[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:18.28]Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago [00:27.62]When a young boy from Chicago walked through a southern door [00:37.71]This boy's dreadful tragedy they should all remember well [00:46.15]The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till [00:58.01]Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up [01:07.30]They said they had a reason but I disremember what [01:16.21]They tortured him and did some things too evil to repeat [01:25.72]There was screaming sounds inside the barn there was laughing sounds out on the street [01:36.12]Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain [01:45.35]And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain [01:54.41]The reason that they killed him there and I'm sure it was no lie [02:03.55]Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die [02:12.90]And then to stop the united states of yelling for a trial [02:21.82]Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till [02:30.58]But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime [02:39.76]And so this trial was a mockery but nobody seemed to mind [02:50.18]I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see [03:00.21]The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs [03:08.43]For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free [03:17.48]While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea [03:28.81]If you can't speak out against this kind of thing a crime that's so unjust [03:38.02]Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt your mind is filled with dust [03:47.06]Your arms and legs they must be in shackles [03:50.45]And chains and your blood it must refuse to flow [03:55.95]For you to let this human race fall down so God awful low [04:05.08]This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man [04:13.98]That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost robed Ku Klux Klan [04:23.09]But if all of us folks that thinks alike [04:27.36]If we gave all we could give [04:32.01]We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live