The Death Of Emmett Till (Live)

[00:08.88]The Death Of Emmett Till -Bob Dylan

[00:17.28]I was down in Mississippi no so long ago

[00:26.76]When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door

[00:36.92]This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well

[00:45.35]The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till

[00:57.11]Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up

[01:06.45]They said they had a reason but I can't remember what

[01:15.42]They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat

[01:24.87]There was screaming sounds inside the barn there was laughing sounds out on the street

[01:35.34]Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain

[01:44.57]And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain

[01:53.60]The reason that they killed him there and I'm sure it ain't no lie

[02:02.76]Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die

[02:12.09]And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial

[02:21.38]Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till

[02:29.81]But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime

[02:39.00]And so this trial was a mockery but nobody seemed to mind

[02:49.37]I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see

[02:59.43]The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs

[03:07.80]For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free

[03:16.68]While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea

[03:27.95]If you can't speak out against this kind of thing a crime that's so unjust

[03:37.22]Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt your mind is filled with dust

[03:46.25]Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains and your blood it must refuse to flow

[03:55.19]For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low

[04:04.25]This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man

[04:13.19]That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan

[04:22.29]But if all of us folks that thinks alike if we gave all we could give

[04:31.25]We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live