The Death Of Emmett Till

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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"Twas down in___ Mississippi,     not so___ long ago,
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When a young boy___ from Chicago town,      stepped through a___ Southern door.
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This boy's___ frightful tragedy,       I can still___ remember well,
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The color of___ his skin was black,     and his name was___ Emmett Till.

[Verse 2]
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Some men they dragged___ him to a barn,      and there they___ beat him up.
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They said they had___ a reason,       but I___ can't remember what.
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They tortured him___ and did some things,   too evil to repeat.
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There was screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds___ out on the street.

[Verse 3]
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Then they rolled his___ body down a gulf,    amidst a___ blood-red rain
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And they threw him in___ the waters w-ide to cease his screaming p-ain.
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The___ reason that they killed him there,    and I'm sure it___ ain't no lie,
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Was just for___ the fun of killin' him,     and to___ watch him slowly die..

[Verse 4]
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And then to stop,   the United States,   of yelling___ for a trial,
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Two brothers they___ confessed that they,   had killed p-oor Emmett Till.
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But on the jury___ there were men,    who helped the brothers commit this awful crime,
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And so this trial was a__ mockery,   but nobody there__ seemed to mind.
[Verse 5]
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E|saw| the mor---ning papers,    but I___ could not bear 

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To see the smiling___ brothers,    walkin' down the courthouse stairs.
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For the jury f-ound them innocent,    and the brothers they went free,
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While Emmett's bo--dy floats the foam, of a_ Jim Crow___ southern sea___.

[Verse 6]
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If you can't speak out,  against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust,
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Your eyes are filled___ with dead men's dirt,   your mind is filled with dust.
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Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to 
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flow___,
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For you let this human race,    fall down so___ God-awful low!

[Verse 7]
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This song is just a reminder,   to remind your___ fellow man
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That this kind of thing___ still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan.
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But if all of us folks,  that thinks alike,  if we give all__ we could give,
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We'd make this great,  land of ours a___ greater___ place to live.

[Outro]
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