[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [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