《The Death of Emmett Till》歌词

歌手： Bob Dylan

时长： 04:26

The Death of Emmett Till (提尔之死) - Bob Dylan (鲍勃·迪伦)[00:00:00]

'Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago[00:00:10]

When a young boy from Chicago town[00:00:18]

Stepped through a Southern door[00:00:23]

This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well[00:00:27]

The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till[00:00:35]

Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up[00:00:46]

They said they had a reason but I can't remember what[00:00:54]

They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat[00:01:03]

There was screaming sounds inside the barn[00:01:11]

There was laughing sounds out on the street[00:01:15]

Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain[00:01:22]

And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain[00:01:30]

The reason that they killed him there[00:01:38]

And I'm sure it ain't no lie[00:01:42]

Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die[00:01:47]

And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial[00:01:57]

Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till[00:02:05]

But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime[00:02:13]

And so this trial was a mockery but nobody seemed to mind[00:02:21]

I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see[00:02:32]

The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs[00:02:41]

For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free[00:02:48]

While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea[00:02:56]

If you can't speak out against this kind of thing[00:03:06]

A crime that's so unjust[00:03:11]

Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt[00:03:15]

Your mind is filled with dust[00:03:19]

Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains[00:03:23]

And your blood it must refuse to flow[00:03:27]

For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low[00:03:31]

This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man[00:03:41]

That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan[00:03:49]

But if all of us folks that thinks alike[00:03:57]

If we gave all we could give[00:04:01]

We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live[00:04:05]

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