The Death of Emmett Till chords by Bob Dylan
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Verse 1
(A minor) (C major) (D major) (F major) (A minor) (E major) It (A minor) was down in Mississippi,
(C major) not (D major) so long ago
(F major) When (A minor) a young boy from (C major) Chicago town
walked (D major) in a southern (E major) door
This boy's (A minor) fateful tragedy
(C major) you should all (D major) remember well
(F major) The (A minor) color of his (C major) skin was black
and his name (E major) was Emmett Till (A minor)
Some men they dragged him to (C major) a barn
an (D major) d there they beat him up (F major)
They said (A minor) they had a reas (C major) on,
but I (D major) disremember what (E major)
They tor (A minor) tured him
and did (C major) some things too evil (D major) to repeat
There (F major) was screamin' (A minor) sounds
inside (C major) the barn
There was laugh (E major) in' sounds
out on the (A minor) street
Then they rolled his body down (C major) a gulf
Amid (D major) st a blood -red rain
(F major) And they threw him (A minor) in the (C major) waters wide
To cease (D major) his screaming pain (E major)
The reason (A minor) that they killed (C major) him there
And I'm (D major) sure it ain't no lie
He (F major) (A minor) was a (C major) black -skinned boy,
so he was (D major) (E major) born to die (A minor)
And then to stop the (C major) United States
of (D major) yelling for a trial
(F major) Two brother (A minor) s,
they confessed (C major) that they had (D major) killed poor Emmett (E major) Till
But on (A minor) the jury there (C major) were men
who helped the brother
(D major) s commit this awful crime
(F major) And (A minor) so this trial was a mock (C major) ery
but nobody (E major) seemed to mind (A minor)
I saw the mornin' (C major) papers,
but (D major) I could not bear
(F major) To see (A minor) the smiling broth (C major) ers
walkin' (D major) down the courthouse stair (E major) s
For the jury (A minor) found them in (C major) nocent
and the brothers (D major) they went free (F major)
While Em (A minor) mett's body still float (C major) s
the foam of a (E major) Jim Crow southern sea (A minor)
If you can't speak out
against this kind (C major) of thing,
a crime (D major) that's so unjust
(F major) Your eye (A minor) s are filled
with dead (C major) man's dirt,
your mind (D major) is filled with dust
(E major) Your arm (A minor) s and legs,
they must be (C major) in shackles and chains
And your (D major) blood, it must cease to flow
(F major) For you (A minor) let this hu (C major) man race
fall down (E major) so god -awful low (A minor)
This song is just a reminder (C major)
to remind (D major) your fellow man
(F major) That this kind (A minor) of thing still lives (C major) today
in that (D major) ghost group, the Ku Klux Klan
(E major) But if all (A minor) us folks had thing (C major) s alike,
if we'd (D major) give all we could give
(F major) We could make (A minor) this great land (C major) of ours
A great (E major) er place to live
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The Death of Emmett Till
Bob Dylan
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