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My Name Is Emmett Till easy guitar chords by 
Emmylou Harris
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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was born a black boy
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My name is Emmett Till
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I walked this earth for fourteen years
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Then one night I was killed
For speaking to a woman
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Whose skin was as white as dough
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That's a sin in Mississippi
But how was I to know
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Verse 2
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I'd come down from Chicago
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To visit with my kin
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Up there I was a cheeky kid
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I guess I always been
But the harm they put upon me
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Was too hard for what I done
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For I was just a black boy
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I never hurt no one
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Verse 3
They took me from my uncle's house
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Mose Wright was his name
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He'd later stand and without
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hesitation
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Point the blame
At the ones who beat and cut me
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And shot me with a gun
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Then threw me in the river
Like I was trash when they were done
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Verse 4
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I was sent back to my mother
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At least what was left of me
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She kept my casket open
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For the whole wide world to see
The awful desecration
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And the evidence of hate
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You could not recognize me
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The mutilation was so great
Verse 5
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There came a cry for justice then
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To be finally fulfilled
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All because of me, a black boy
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My name is Emmett Till
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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But I'd have rather lived
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'Til I was too old to die young
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Not miss all I left behind
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All that might have come
The summer clouds above my head
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The grass beneath my feet
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The warmth of a good woman
Her kisses soft and sweet
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Verse 7
Perhaps to be a father
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With a black boy of my own
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And watch him grow into
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A kinder world than I had known
Verse 8
Where no child would be murdered
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For the color of his skin
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And love would be the only thing
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Inside the hearts of men
Verse 9
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Bm
They say the horror of that night
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Is still haunting heaven still
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Where I am one more black boy
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My name is Emmett Till
Outro 1
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