The Death Of Emmett Till

[Chords] Am       x-0-2-2-1-0 C/G      3-0-2-0-1-0 D/F#     2-0-0-2-3-2 F        1-3-3-2-1-1 E        0-2-2-1-0-0 [Strum with some hammer-on’s here and there on the Am and E chords or play chords over a travis style picking pattern] [Intro]     /    /               [Verse 1] "Twas down in___ Mississippi     not so___ long ago When a young boy___ from Chicago town      stepped through a___ Southern door. This boy’s___ frightful tragedy       I can still___ remember well The color of___ his skin was black     and his name was___ Emmett Till. [Verse 2] Some men they dragged___ him to a barn      and there they___ beat him up. They said they had___ a reason       but I___ can’t remember what. They tortured him___ and did some things   too evil to repeat. There was screaming sounds inside the barn there was laughing sounds___ out on the street. [Verse 3] Then they rolled his___ body down a gulf    amidst a___ blood-red rain And they threw him in___ the waters w-ide to cease his screaming p-ain. The___ reason that they killed him there    and I’m sure it___ ain’t no lie Was just for___ the fun of killin’ him     and to___ watch him slowly die.. [Verse 4] And then to stop   the United States   of yelling___ for a trial Two brothers they___ confessed that they   had killed p-oor Emmett Till. But on the jury___ there were men    who helped the brothers commit this awful crime And so this trial was a__ mockery   but nobody there__ seemed to mind. [Verse 5] I saw the mor---ning papers    but I___ could not bear To see the smiling___ brothers    walkin’ down the courthouse stairs. For the jury f-ound them innocent    and the brothers they went free While Emmett’s bo--dy floats the foam of a_ Jim Crow___ southern sea___. [Verse 6] If you can’t speak out  against this kind of thing a crime that’s so unjust Your eyes are filled___ with dead men’s dirt   your mind is filled with dust. Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains and your blood it must refuse to flow___ For you let this human race    fall down so___ God-awful low! [Verse 7] This song is just a reminder   to remind your___ fellow man That this kind of thing___ still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan. But if all of us folks  that thinks alike  if we give all__ we could give We’d make this great  land of ours a___ greater___ place to live. [Outro]      /      /