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D
I was born a black boy
G
My name is Emmett Till
A
Walked this earth for 14 years
G D
One night I was killed
D
For speaking to a woman
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Whose skin was white as dough
D
That's a sin in Mississippi
D A
But how was I to know?
D
I'd come down from Chicago
G
To visit with my kin
A
Up there I was a cheeky kid
G D
I guess I always been
D
But the harm they put upon me
G
Was too hard for what I done
D
For I was just a black boy
A D
I never hurt no one
D G D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D A D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D
They took me from my uncle's house
G
Mose Wright was his name
A G
He'd be later standing without hesitation
D
Point the blame
D
At the ones who beat and cut me
G
And shot me with a gun
D
And threw me in the river
D A
Like I was trash when they were done
D
I was sent back to my mother
G
At least what was left of me
A
She kept my casket open
G D
For the whole wide world to see
D
The awful desecration
G
And the evidence of hate
D
You could not recognize me
A D
The mutilation was so great
Bm
Became a cry for justice then
A
To be finally fulfilled
G D
All because of me, a black boy
A D
My name was Emmett Till
D G D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D A D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D G D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D A D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D
Oh, that I had rather lived
G
Till I was too old to die young
A
Not miss all I left behind
G D
All that might have come
D
Summer clouds above my head
G
The grass beneath my feet
D
The warmth of a good woman
D A
Her kisses soft and sweet
D
Perhaps to be a father
G
With a black boy of my own
A G
Watch him grow into a kinder world
D
Than I had known
D
Where no child would be murdered
G
For the color of his skin
D
And love would be the only thing
A D
Inside the hearts of men
Bm
They say the horror of that night
A
Is haunting heaven still
G D
Where I am one more black boy
A D
My name is Emmett Till
D G D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D A D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D G D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D A D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
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