《The Death of Emmett Till》歌词

[00:00:00] The Death of Emmett Till (提尔之死) (Radio Edit) (NBC Live Radio Performance) - Bob Dylan (鲍勃·迪伦)

[00:00:13] I was down in Mississippi no so long ago

[00:00:23] When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door

[00:00:32] This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well

[00:00:40] The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till

[00:00:49] Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up

[00:00:58] They said they had a reason but I can't remember what

[00:01:07] They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat

[00:01:16] There was screaming sounds inside the barn there was laughing sounds out on the street

[00:01:25] Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain

[00:01:34] And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain

[00:01:43] The reason that they killed him there and I'm sure it ain't no lie

[00:01:51] Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die

[00:02:00] And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial

[00:02:09] Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till

[00:02:17] But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime

[00:02:27] And so this trial was a mockery but nobody seemed to mind

[00:02:36] I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see

[00:02:45] The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs

[00:02:53] For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free

[00:03:02] While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea

[00:03:11] If you can't speak out against this kind of thing a crime that's so unjust

[00:03:19] Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt your mind is filled with dust

[00:03:28] Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains and your blood it must refuse to flow

[00:03:36] For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low

[00:03:45] This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man

[00:03:53] That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan

[00:04:02] But if all of us folks that thinks alike if we gave all we could give

[00:04:11] We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live