Key: C minor
Verse 1
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It was down in Mississippi,
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not so long ago
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When a young boy from Chicago town
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walked in a southern door
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you should all remember well
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The color of his skin was black
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and his name was Emmett Till
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and there they beat him up
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They said they had a reason,
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but I disremember what
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and did some things too evil to repeat
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There was screamin' sounds
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And they threw him in the waters wide
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To cease his screaming pain
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The reason that they killed him there
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He was a black -skinned boy,
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so he was born to die
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Two brothers,
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they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till
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But on the jury there were men
who helped the brother
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And so this trial was a mockery
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but nobody seemed to mind
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To see the smiling brothers
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walkin' down the courthouse stairs
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For the jury found them innocent
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and the brothers they went free
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While Emmett's body still floats
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the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea
If you can't speak out
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Your eyes are filled
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Your arms and legs,
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For you let this human race
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fall down so god -awful low
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That this kind of thing still lives today
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But if all us folks had things alike,
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We could make this great land of ours
Outro 1
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