歌手: Bob Dylan
时长: 04:30
The Death of Emmett Till (提尔之死) (Radio Edit) (NBC Live Radio Performance) - Bob Dylan (鲍勃·迪伦)[00:00:00]
I was down in Mississippi no so long ago [00:00:13]
When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door [00:00:23]
This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well [00:00:32]
The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till [00:00:40]
Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up [00:00:49]
They said they had a reason but I can't remember what [00:00:58]
They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat [00:01:07]
There was screaming sounds inside the barn there was laughing sounds out on the street [00:01:16]
Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain[00:01:25]
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain [00:01:34]
The reason that they killed him there and I'm sure it ain't no lie [00:01:43]
Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die [00:01:51]
And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial [00:02:00]
Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till [00:02:09]
But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime [00:02:17]
And so this trial was a mockery but nobody seemed to mind [00:02:27]
I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see[00:02:36]
The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs [00:02:45]
For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free [00:02:53]
While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea [00:03:02]
If you can't speak out against this kind of thing a crime that's so unjust [00:03:11]
Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt your mind is filled with dust [00:03:19]
Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains and your blood it must refuse to flow [00:03:28]
For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low [00:03:36]
This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man[00:03:45]
That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan [00:03:53]
But if all of us folks that thinks alike if we gave all we could give [00:04:02]
We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live[00:04:11]