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Lyrics for The Death Of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan:
| | | Artist: | Bob Dylan |
| | Album: | Miscellaneous | | Track: | The Death Of Emmett Till | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 168 | | | | Lyrics: | by Bob Dylan
"Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago,
When a young boy from Chicago
town stepped through a Southern door.
This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still 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 can't
remember what.
They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat.
There was
screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds out on the street.
Then they
rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
And they threw him in the waters wide to
cease his screaming pain.
The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it ain't no
lie,
Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die.
And then to
stop the United States of yelling for a trial,
Two brothers they confessed that they had killed
poor Emmett Till.
But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful
crime,
And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind.
I saw the morning
papers but I could not bear to see
The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse
stairs.
For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free,
While 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 dead men's dirt, your mind is
filled with dust.
Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it
must refuse to flow,
For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low!
This
song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man
That this kind of thing still lives today in
that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan.
But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we
could give,
We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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