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THE DEATH OF EMMETT TILL Dylan cover by Roger Holmrooswmv
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Copyright music and lyrics reproduced by kind permission of Special Rider -- for original, exclusive • performances by Bob Dylan, check-out the official channel at / bobdylan . • • Emmett Louis Bobo Till (July 25, 1941 -- August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till was from Chicago, Illinois visiting his relatives in the Mississippi Delta region when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor of a small grocery store. Several nights later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam, arrived at Till's great-uncle's house where they took Till, transported him to a barn, beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. His body was discovered and retrieved from the river three days later. • • 'Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago • When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door • This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well • The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till • Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up • They said they had a reason, but I can't remember what • They tortured him and did some things too evil to repeat • There were screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds • out on the street • Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain • And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain • The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it ain't no lie • He was a blackskin boy, so he was born to die • And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial • Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till • But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this • awful crime • And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind • I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see • The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs • For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free • While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea • If you can't speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust • Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt, your mind is filled with dust • Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood • it must refuse to flow • For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low! • This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man • That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan • But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give • We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live • • Copyright © 1963, 1968 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991, 1996 by Special Rider Music
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