《Death Of Emmet Till》歌词

歌曲： Death Of Emmet Till

所属专辑：In Montreal， July 1962

歌手： Bob Dylan

时长： 04:40

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Death Of Emmet Till - Bob Dylan (鲍勃·迪伦)[00:00:00]

Lyricist：Bob Dylan[00:00:01]

Composer：Bob Dylan[00:00:03]

'Twas down in Mississippi[00:00:04]

No so long ago[00:00:10]

When a young boy[00:00:14]

From Chicago[00:00:16]

Walked through a Southern door[00:00:18]

This boy's dreadful tragedy[00:00:24]

He should all remember well[00:00:28]

The color of[00:00:32]

His skin was black[00:00:35]

And his name was[00:00:37]

Emmett Till[00:00:39]

Some men they dragged him to a barn[00:00:44]

And there they beat him up[00:00:50]

They said they had a reason[00:00:53]

But I disremember what[00:00:58]

They tortured him[00:01:02]

And did some things[00:01:05]

Too evil[00:01:07]

To repeat[00:01:09]

There was screaming sounds[00:01:12]

Inside the barn[00:01:14]

There was laughing sounds out on the street[00:01:16]

Then they rolled his[00:01:22]

Body down a gulf[00:01:24]

Amidst a bloody red rain[00:01:27]

And they threw him in the waters wide[00:01:31]

To cease his screaming pain[00:01:36]

The reason that[00:01:40]

They killed him there[00:01:43]

And I'm sure it was't no lie[00:01:45]

Was just for[00:01:50]

The fun of killing him[00:01:52]

And to watch him slowly die[00:01:54]

And then to stop[00:01:59]

The united states[00:02:01]

Of yelling for a trial[00:02:03]

Two brothers they confessed that they[00:02:08]

Had killed poor Emmett Till[00:02:12]

But on the jury there were men[00:02:17]

Who helped the brothers[00:02:21]

Commit this awful crime[00:02:23]

And so this trial[00:02:26]

Was a mockery[00:02:28]

But nobody seemed to mind[00:02:30]

I saw the morning papers[00:02:36]

But I could not bear[00:02:42]

To see the smiling brothers[00:02:45]

Walking down the courthouse stairs[00:02:50]

For the jury found[00:02:55]

Them innocent[00:02:57]

And the brothers[00:02:59]

They went free[00:03:01]

While Emmett's body floats the foam[00:03:04]

Of a Jim Crow Southern sea[00:03:08]

If you can't speak out[00:03:15]

Against this kind of thing[00:03:17]

A crime that's so unjust[00:03:20]

Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt[00:03:24]

Your mind is filled with dust[00:03:29]

Your arms and legs[00:03:33]

They must be in shackles and chains[00:03:35]

And your blood it must refuse to flow[00:03:38]

For you to let[00:03:42]

This human race[00:03:44]

Fall down so God awful low[00:03:47]

This song's just a reminder[00:03:51]

To remind your fellow man[00:03:56]

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

In that ghost robed Ku Klux Klan[00:04:05]

But if all of us folks[00:04:09]

That thinks alike[00:04:11]

If we gave all we could give[00:04:13]

We'd make this[00:04:18]

Great land of ours[00:04:20]

A greater place to live[00:04:23]