My Name is Emmett Till-Emmylou Harris

[ti:My Name Is Emmett Till] [ar:Emmylou Harris] [al:Hard Bargain (Deluxe Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Name is Emmett Till - Emmylou Harris (爱美萝·哈里斯) [00:13.40]I was born a black boy [00:16.11]My name is Emmett Till [00:18.74] [00:19.74]Walked this earth for 14 years [00:22.96]One night I was killed [00:25.64] [00:27.78]For speaking to a woman [00:30.96]Whose skin was white as dough [00:33.29] [00:33.98]That's a sin in Mississippi [00:37.30]But how was I to know [00:40.76] [00:42.39]I come down from Chicago [00:45.33]To visit with my kin [00:48.58]There I was a cheeky kid [00:52.09]I guess I always been [00:56.02] [00:56.77]But the harm they put upon me [00:59.84]Was too hard for what I done [01:02.13] [01:03.19]For I was just a black boy [01:06.66]I never hurt no one [01:09.24] [01:11.67]Oh oh oh oh oh oh [01:24.80]They took me from my uncle's house [01:27.87]Mose Wright was his name [01:31.07]He'd be later standing without hesitation [01:34.27] [01:35.02]Point the blame [01:36.64] [01:39.10]At the ones who beat and cut me [01:42.22]And shot me with the gun [01:44.75] [01:45.69]And threw me in the river [01:48.52]Like I was trash when they were done [01:51.33] [01:53.57]I was sent back to my mother [01:56.96]At least what was left of me [01:59.08] [02:00.22]She kept my casket open [02:02.86]For the whole wide world to see [02:05.75] [02:08.31]The awful desecration [02:10.87]And the evidence of hate [02:13.75] [02:14.84]You could not recognize me [02:17.83]The mutilation was so great [02:20.57] [02:23.19]Became a cry for justice then [02:26.06]To be finally fulfilled [02:28.82]All because of me a black boy [02:32.53]My name was Emmett Till [02:36.61] [02:37.99]Oh oh oh oh oh oh [03:02.13] [03:03.38]Oh I had rather lived [03:05.33] [03:05.93]Till I was too old to die young [03:10.00]Not even a soul I left behind [03:13.22]All that might have come [03:16.85] [03:18.18]Summer clouds above my head [03:21.45]The grass beneath my feet [03:24.47]The warmth of a good woman [03:27.90]Her kisses soft and sweet [03:31.53] [03:35.98]Perhaps to be a father [03:39.05]Of a black boy of my own [03:42.36]Watch him grow into a kinder world [03:46.35]Than I had known [03:48.11] [03:50.55]Where no child would be murdered [03:52.77]For the color of his skin [03:56.18] [03:57.11]And love would be the only thing [04:00.18]Inside the hearts of men [04:03.82] [04:05.32]They say the horror of that night [04:08.31]Is haunting heaven still [04:10.81] [04:11.43]Where I am one more black boy [04:14.23] [04:14.97]My name is Emmett Till