My Name is Emmett Till-Emmylou Harris

[00:00.000] 作词 : Harris [00:01.000] 作曲 : Harris [00:05.49]Emmylou Harris - My Name Is Emmett Till [00:13.89]I was born a black boy [00:16.58]My name is Emmett Till [00:19.08] [00:20.40]Walked this earth for 14 years [00:24.02]One night I was killed [00:28.54]For speaking to a woman [00:31.73]Whose skin was white as dough [00:35.17]That's a sin in Mississippi [00:39.61]But how was I to know? [00:41.73] [00:42.98]I come down from Chicago [00:45.55] [00:46.36]To visit with my kin [00:49.86]There I was a cheeky kid [00:52.80]I guess I always been [00:57.17]But the harm they put upon me [01:00.55]Was too hard for what I done [01:03.80]For I was just a black boy [01:07.99]I never hurt no one [01:12.49]Oh oh oh oh oh oh ... [01:21.36] [01:25.68]They took me from my uncle's house [01:29.43]Mose Wright was his name [01:31.93]He'd be later standing without hesitation [01:38.43] [01:39.30]Point the blame [01:40.42]At the ones who beat and cut me [01:42.48]And shot me with the gun [01:45.73] [01:46.47]And threw me in the river [01:48.85]Like I was trash when they were done [01:51.16] [01:53.98]I was sent back to my mother [01:56.72]At least what was left of me [01:59.79] [02:00.47]She kept my casket open [02:02.22] [02:03.79]For the whole wide world to see [02:06.35] [02:08.60]The awful desecration [02:10.40] [02:12.77]And the evidence of hate [02:15.83]You could not recognize me [02:18.39]The mutilation was so great [02:22.58] [02:23.77]Became a cry for justice then [02:26.39]To be finally fulfilled [02:29.70]All because of me, a black boy [02:33.08]My name was Emmett Till [02:37.71] [02:38.76]Oh oh oh oh oh oh ... [02:42.77] [03:04.08]Oh, I had rather lived [03:06.96]Till I was too old to die young [03:10.77]Not even a soul I left behind [03:13.71]All that might have come [03:14.66] [03:18.91]Summer clouds above my head [03:20.41]The grass beneath my feet [03:23.72] [03:25.54]The warmth of a good woman [03:28.97]Her kisses soft and sweet [03:34.23] [03:36.85]Perhaps to be a father [03:39.16]Of a black boy of my own [03:43.48]Watch him grow into a kinder world [03:46.85] [03:50.78]Than I had known [03:52.04]Where no child would be murdered [03:53.41]For the color of his skin [03:55.35] [03:57.48]And love would be the only thing [03:59.85] [04:00.79]Inside the hearts of men [04:02.23] [04:05.85]They say the horror of that night [04:08.16] [04:08.66]Is haunting heaven still [04:09.62] [04:12.06]Where I am one more black boy [04:15.18]My name is Emmett Till