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[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] Am C/G D/F# F Am E Am [Verse 1]
"Twas Amdown in___ MisC/Gsissippi, D/F#not so___ long aFgo, When a Amyoung boy___ from ChiC/Gcago town, stepD/F#ped through a___ Southern Edoor. This Amboy's___ frightful C/Gtragedy, I can sD/F#till___ remember wFell, The Amcolor of___ his C/Gskin was black, and his Ename was___ Emmett AmTill.
[Verse 2]
Some Ammen they dragged___ him C/Gto a barn, D/F#and there they___ beat him Fup. They Amsaid they had___ a C/Greason, but I_D/F#__ can't remember what.E They Amtortured him___ and C/Gdid some things, too D/F#evil to repeat. F There was Amscreaming sounds inC/Gside the barn, there was lEaughing sounds___ out on the sAmtreet.
[Verse 3]
Then they Amrolled his___ body dC/Gown a gulf, amD/F#idst a___ blood-red rFain And they Amthrew him in___ the C/Gwaters w-ide to D/F#cease his screaming p-aEin. The___ Amreason that they C/Gkilled him there, and I'm D/F#sure it___ ain't no lFie, Was just Amfor___ the fun of C/Gkillin' him, and toE___ watch him slowly dAmie..
[Verse 4]
And Amthen to stop, the C/GUnited States, of yeD/F#lling___ for a trialF, Two bAmrothers they___ confC/Gessed that they, had D/F#killed p-oor Emmett TilEl. But on the Amjury___ there C/Gwere men, who helped the D/F#brothers commit this awful cFrime, And so Amthis trial was a__ C/Gmockery, but nobEody there__ seemed to Ammind.
[Verse 5]
I sAmaw the mor---ning C/Gpapers, but ID/F#___ could not bFear To Amsee the smiling___ bC/Grothers, walkin' D/F#down the courthouse stEairs. For the jAmury f-ound them iC/Gnnocent, and the D/F#brothers they went fFree, While AmEmmett's bo--dy fC/Gloats the foam, of a_ EJim Crow___ southern Amsea___.
[Verse 6]
If you Amcan't speak out, agaiC/Gnst this kind of thing, a crimD/F#e that's so unjustF, Your Ameyes are filled___ with dC/Gead men's dirt, your D/F#mind is filled with dustE. Your Amarms and legs they must be in C/Gshackles and chains, and your D/F#blood it must refuse to fFlow___, For Amyou let this human C/Grace, fall dEown so___ God-awful lAmow!
[Verse 7]
This Amsong is just a remC/Ginder, to D/F#remind your___ fellow Fman That this Amkind of thing___ still lC/Gives today in that gD/F#host-robed Ku Klux EKlan. But if Amall of us folks, that C/Gthinks alike, if we give allD/F#__ we could giFve, We'd Ammake this great, C/Gland of ours a___ Egreater___ place to lAmive.
[Outro] Am C/G D/F# F Am E Am