《The Death of Emmet Till》歌词

[00:00:00] The Death of Emmet Till - Bob Dylan (鲍勃·迪伦)

[00:00:03] 'Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago

[00:01:02] When a young boy from Chicago town

[00:01:07] Stepped through a Southern door

[00:01:11] This boy's dreadful tragedy

[00:01:16] I can still remember well

[00:01:19] The color of his skin was black

[00:01:25] And his name was Emmett Till

[00:01:28] Some men they dragged him to a barn

[00:01:36] And there they beat him up

[00:01:39] They said they had a reason

[00:01:43] But I disremember what

[00:01:47] They tortured him and

[00:01:51] Did some evil things too evil to

[00:01:55] Repeat

[00:01:56] There was screaming sounds inside the barn

[00:02:00] There was laughing sounds out on the street

[00:02:04] Then they rolled his body

[00:02:10] Down a gulf amidst a blood-red rain

[00:02:15] And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his

[00:02:22] Screaming pain

[00:02:23] The reason that they killed him there

[00:02:28] And I'm sure it ain't no lie

[00:02:32] He was a black-skinned boy so

[00:02:39] He was born to die

[00:02:40] And then to stop the United States

[00:02:47] Of yelling for a trial

[00:02:51] Two brothers they confessed

[00:02:55] That they had killed poor

[00:02:58] Emmett Till

[00:03:00] But on the jury there were men

[00:03:04] Who helped the brothers

[00:03:07] Commit this awful crime

[00:03:08] And so this trial was a mockery

[00:03:13] But nobody seemed to mind

[00:03:16] I saw the morning papers

[00:03:23] But I could not bear to see

[00:03:29] The smiling brothers walkin' down

[00:03:33] The courthouse stairs

[00:03:36] For the jury found them innocent

[00:03:40] And the brothers they went free

[00:03:44] While Emmett's body floats the foam

[00:03:49] Of a Jim Crow southern sea

[00:03:52] If you can't speak out against this kind of thing

[00:03:59] A crime that's so unjust

[00:04:03] Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt

[00:04:07] Your mind is filled with dust

[00:04:11] Your arms and legs they

[00:04:14] Must be in shackles and chains

[00:04:16] And your blood it must refuse to flow

[00:04:19] For you let this human race fall

[00:04:25] Down so God-awful low

[00:04:28] This song is just a reminder

[00:04:34] To remind your fellow man

[00:04:38] That this kind of thing still lives today in that

[00:04:44] Ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan

[00:04:46] But if all us folks that thinks alike

[00:04:51] If we gave all we could give

[00:04:55] We could make this great land of ours

[00:04:59] A greater place to live