《Death of Emmett Till(Live)》歌词

歌曲： Death of Emmett Till(Live)

所属专辑：Live Radio Session 1962

歌手： Bob Dylan

时长： 05:21

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Death of Emmett Till (Live) - Bob Dylan (鲍勃·迪伦)[00:00:00]

'Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago [00:00:02]

When a young boy from Chicago town[00:01:01]

Stepped through a Southern door [00:01:07]

This boy's dreadful tragedy[00:01:10]

I can still remember well [00:01:15]

The color of his skin was black[00:01:19]

And his name was Emmett Till [00:01:24]

Some men they dragged him to a barn[00:01:28]

And there they beat him up [00:01:35]

They said they had a reason [00:01:38]

But I disremember what [00:01:42]

They tortured him and[00:01:47]

Did some evil things too evil to[00:01:50]

Repeat [00:01:54]

There was screaming sounds inside the barn [00:01:55]

There was laughing sounds out on the street [00:02:00]

Then they rolled his body[00:02:04]

Down a gulf amidst a blood-red rain[00:02:10]

And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his[00:02:15]

Screaming pain [00:02:22]

The reason that they killed him there [00:02:22]

And I'm sure it ain't no lie [00:02:28]

He was a black-skinned boy so[00:02:32]

He was born to die [00:02:38]

And then to stop the United States[00:02:40]

Of yelling for a trial [00:02:47]

Two brothers they confessed[00:02:51]

That they had killed poor[00:02:54]

Emmett Till [00:02:58]

But on the jury there were men[00:02:59]

Who helped the brothers[00:03:04]

Commit this awful crime [00:03:06]

And so this trial was a mockery [00:03:07]

But nobody seemed to mind [00:03:12]

I saw the morning papers[00:03:16]

But I could not bear to see[00:03:23]

The smiling brothers walkin' down[00:03:28]

The courthouse stairs [00:03:33]

For the jury found them innocent[00:03:35]

And the brothers they went free [00:03:39]

While Emmett's body floats the foam[00:03:43]

Of a Jim Crow southern sea [00:03:48]

If you can't speak out against this kind of thing [00:03:52]

A crime that's so unjust [00:03:58]

Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt [00:04:02]

Your mind is filled with dust [00:04:06]

Your arms and legs they[00:04:10]

Must be in shackles and chains [00:04:14]

And your blood it must refuse to flow [00:04:15]

For you let this human race fall[00:04:18]

Down so God-awful low [00:04:24]

This song is just a reminder[00:04:27]

To remind your fellow man[00:04:33]

That this kind of thing still lives today in that[00:04:37]

Ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan [00:04:44]

But if all us folks that thinks alike [00:04:46]

If we gave all we could give [00:04:50]

We could make this great land of ours[00:04:54]

A greater place to live[00:04:59]