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жанры: folk
альбомы: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
The Death of Emmett Till
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Bob Dylan
жанры: folk
альбомы: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
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Was down in Mississippi not so long ago When a young boy from Chicago town Walked in a Southern doorThis boy's fateful tragedy You all should remember well The color of his skin was black And his name was Emmett TillSome men, they dragged him to a barn And there they beat him up They said they had a reason But disremember whatThey tortured him and did some things Too evil to repeat There were screaming sounds inside the barn There was laughing sounds out on the streetThen they rolled his body down a gulf Amidst a blood red rain And they threw him in the waters wide To cease his screaming painThe reason that they killed him there And I'm a-sure, it ain't no lie 'Cause he was born in black-skin barn He was born to dieAnd then to stop the United States Of yelling for a trial Two brothers, they confessed That they had killed poor Emmett TillBut on the jury there were men Who had helped the brothers commit this awful crime And so this trial was a mockery But nobody there seemed to mindI saw the morning papers But I could not bear To see smiling brothers Walkin' down the courthouse stairsFor the jury found them innocent And the brothers, they went free While Emmett's body floats the foam Of a Jim Crow southern seaIf you can't speak out against this kind of thing A crime that's so unjust Your eyes are filled with dead men's clay Your ears must be filled with dustYour arms and legs They must be in shackles and chains And your mind, it must cease to flow For you to let our human race Fall down so God-awful lowThis song is just a reminder To remind your fellow man That this kind of thing still lives today In that ghost-robed Ku Klux KlanBut 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
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