My Name Is Emmett Till Chords

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DI was born a black boy

 My Gname is Emmett Till

AWalked this earth for 14 years

GOne night I was Dkilled

 For Dspeaking to a woman

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Whose skin was white as dough

 That's a Dsin in Mississippi

 But Dhow was I to Aknow?

 I'd Dcome down from Chicago

 To Gvisit with my kin

 Up Athere I was a cheeky kid

 I Gguess I always Dbeen

 But the Dharm they put upon me

 Was too Ghard for what I done

 For DI was just a black boy

 I Anever hurt no Done

DOh oh oh Goh oh Doh

DOh oh oh Aoh oh Doh

 They Dtook me from my uncle's house

GMose Wright was his name

 He'd be Alater standing without hesiGtation

 Point the Dblame

 At the Dones who beat and cut me

 And Gshot me with a gun

 And Dthrew me in the river

 Like I was Dtrash when they were Adone

 I was Dsent back to my mother

 At least Gwhat was left of me

 She Akept my casket open

 For the Gwhole wide world to Dsee

 The Dawful desecration

 And the Gevidence of hate

 You Dcould not recognize me

 The mutiAlation was so Dgreat

 BeBmcame a cry for justice then

 To be Afinally fulfilled

 All beGcause of me, a Dblack boy

 My Aname was Emmett DTill

DOh oh oh Goh oh Doh

DOh oh oh Aoh oh Doh

DOh oh oh Goh oh Doh

DOh oh oh Aoh oh Doh

 Oh, that DI had rather lived

 Till I was Gtoo old to die young

ANot miss all I left behind

GAll that might have Dcome

DSummer clouds above my head

 The Ggrass beneath my feet

 The Dwarmth of a good woman

 Her Dkisses soft and Asweet

 PerDhaps to be a father

 With a Gblack boy of my own

AWatch him grow into a kinder Gworld

 Than I had Dknown

 Where Dno child would be murdered

 For the Gcolor of his skin

 And Dlove would be the only thing

 InAside the hearts of Dmen

 They Bmsay the horror of that night

 Is Ahaunting heaven still

 Where GI am one more Dblack boy

 My Aname is Emmett DTill

DOh oh oh Goh oh Doh

DOh oh oh Aoh oh Doh

DOh oh oh Goh oh Doh

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