《My Name is Emmett Till》歌词

[00:00:00] Emmylou Harris - My Name Is Emmett Till

[00:00:13] I was born a black boy

[00:00:16] My name is Emmett Till

[00:00:19] Walked this earth for 14 years

[00:00:22] One night I was killed

[00:00:27] For speaking to a woman

[00:00:30] Whose skin was white as dough

[00:00:33] That's a sin in Mississippi

[00:00:37] But how was I to know

[00:00:42] I come down from Chicago

[00:00:45] To visit with my kin

[00:00:48] There I was a cheeky kid

[00:00:52] I guess I always been

[00:00:56] But the harm they put upon me

[00:00:59] Was too hard for what I done

[00:01:03] For I was just a black boy

[00:01:06] I never hurt no one

[00:01:11] Oh oh oh oh oh oh

[00:01:24] They took me from my uncle's house

[00:01:27] Mose Wright was his name

[00:01:31] He'd be later standing without hesitation

[00:01:35] Point the blame

[00:01:39] At the ones who beat and cut me

[00:01:42] And shot me with the gun

[00:01:45] And threw me in the river

[00:01:48] Like I was trash when they were done

[00:01:53] I was sent back to my mother

[00:01:56] At least what was left of me

[00:02:00] She kept my casket open

[00:02:02] For the whole wide world to see

[00:02:08] The awful desecration

[00:02:10] And the evidence of hate

[00:02:14] You could not recognize me

[00:02:17] The mutilation was so great

[00:02:23] Became a cry for justice then

[00:02:26] To be finally fulfilled

[00:02:28] All because of me a black boy

[00:02:32] My name was Emmett Till

[00:02:37] Oh oh oh oh oh oh

[00:03:03] Oh I had rather lived

[00:03:05] Till I was too old to die young

[00:03:10] Not even a soul I left behind

[00:03:13] All that might have come

[00:03:18] Summer clouds above my head

[00:03:21] The grass beneath my feet

[00:03:24] The warmth of a good woman

[00:03:27] Her kisses soft and sweet

[00:03:35] Perhaps to be a father

[00:03:39] Of a black boy of my own

[00:03:42] Watch him grow into a kinder world

[00:03:46] Than I had known

[00:03:50] Where no child would be murdered

[00:03:52] For the color of his skin

[00:03:57] And love would be the only thing

[00:04:00] Inside the hearts of men

[00:04:05] They say the horror of that night

[00:04:08] Is haunting heaven still

[00:04:11] Where I am one more black boy

[00:04:14] My name is Emmett Till