The Death Of Emmett Till (Live)-Bob Dylan

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:12.99]The Death of Emmett Till [00:15.81] [00:21.12]'Twas down in Mississippi [00:26.01] [00:34.47]Not so long ago [00:37.74] [00:57.81]When a young boy from Chicago Town [01:07.29] [01:08.25]Walk in a southern door [01:11.34] [01:12.48]This boy's fateful tragedy [01:15.75] [01:16.89]We should all remember well [01:19.86] [01:21.33]The color of his skin was black [01:24.63] [01:25.38]And his name was Emmett Till [01:28.38] [01:32.19]Some men they dragged him to a barn [01:35.43] [01:36.15]And there they beat him up [01:39.03] [01:40.50]They said they had a reason [01:43.56] [01:44.67]But I disremember what [01:46.11] [01:48.81]They tortured him and did some things [01:52.41] [01:53.16]Too evil to repeat [01:55.47] [01:57.27]There was screamin' sounds inside the barn [02:00.72] [02:01.62]There was laughin' sound out on the street [02:04.20] [02:08.16]They dragged his body to a gulch [02:11.01] [02:12.18]Amidst a bloodred rain [02:15.63] [02:16.56]And they through him in the waters wide [02:20.22] [02:20.94]To sease his screaming pain [02:23.73] [02:25.11]The reason that they killed him there [02:28.65] [02:29.40]And I'm sure it ain't no lie [02:32.40] [02:34.02]He was a blackskin boy [02:36.12] [02:36.72]So he was born to die [02:40.65] [02:44.40]And so to stop these United States [02:47.79] [02:48.69]Of yelling for a trial [02:51.48] [02:52.65]Two brothers they confessed that they [02:56.07] [02:57.57]Killed poor Emmett Till [02:59.55] [03:00.93]But on the jury there were men [03:04.44] [03:05.25]Who helped the brother commit this awful crime [03:08.16] [03:09.69]And so this trial was a mockery [03:13.53]But nobody seemed to mind [03:16.68] [03:20.13]I saw the morning paper [03:23.07] [03:25.56]But I could not bear [03:27.36] [03:28.62]To see the brothers smiling [03:30.87] [03:33.33]On that courthouse stairs [03:35.76] [03:36.81]For the jury found them innocent [03:39.99] [03:40.98]And the brothers they went free [03:44.01] [03:45.27]Whilt Emmett's body floats the foam [03:48.63] [03:50.19]Of a Jim Crow southern sea [03:52.65] [03:55.80]If you can't speak out against this kind of thing [03:59.04] [04:00.12]A crime that's so unjust [04:02.67] [04:04.11]Your eyes are filled with deadman's dirt [04:07.26] [04:08.55]Your mind is filled with dust [04:10.92] [04:12.36]Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains [04:16.62]And your blood it must cease to flow [04:19.23] [04:20.70]For you'd let this human race [04:24.03] [04:25.44]Sick so God-awful low [04:26.97] [04:31.26]This song is just a reminder [04:33.96] [04:35.25]To tell my fellow man [04:37.59] [04:39.30]That this kind of thing still lives today [04:42.51] [04:43.47]In that ghost-robed Klu Klux Klan [04:46.35] [04:47.58]But if we all then think alike [04:50.73] [04:51.72]If we give all we can give [04:54.57] [04:56.13]We'd make this Great land of ours [04:59.46] [05:22.26]An even greater place to live