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《The Death of Emmett Till》歌词


歌曲: The Death of Emmett Till

所属专辑:Standing on the Highway

歌手: Bob Dylan

时长: 04:30

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The Death of Emmett Till

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]