{"id":174588,"date":"2020-12-14T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=174588"},"modified":"2020-12-08T07:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T07:15:16","slug":"the-death-of-emmett-till-music-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/12\/the-death-of-emmett-till-music-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Emmett Till (Music Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"

11 Mar 1962 – Radio Show with Cynthia Gooding<\/em><\/p>\n

[The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”<\/em><\/span><\/span> — Nobel Committee]<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RVKTx9YlKls&feature=emb_logo
\nLYRICS<\/strong>
\n“Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago,
\nWhen a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door.
\nThis boy’s dreadful tragedy I can still remember well,
\nThe color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till.<\/p>\n

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Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up.
\nThey said they had a reason, but I can’t remember what.
\nThey tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat.
\nThere was screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds out on the street.<\/p>\n

Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
\nAnd they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain.
\nThe reason that they killed him there, and I’m sure it ain’t no lie,
\nWas just for the fun of killin’ him and to watch him slowly die.<\/p>\n

And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial,
\nTwo brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till.
\nBut on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime,
\nAnd so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind.<\/p>\n

I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see
\nThe smiling brothers walkin’ down the courthouse stairs.
\nFor the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free,
\nWhile Emmett’s body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea.<\/p>\n

If you can’t speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that’s so unjust,
\nYour eyes are filled with dead men’s dirt, your mind is filled with dust.
\nYour arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow,
\nFor you let this human race fall down so God-awful low!<\/p>\n

This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man
\nThat this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan.
\nBut if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give,
\nWe could make this great land of ours a greater place to live.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0LyricFind<\/a><\/em>
\nSongwriters: Bob Dylan<\/em>
\nThe Death Of Emmett Till lyrics \u00a9 Sony\/ATV Music Publishing LLC<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago,
\nWhen a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door.
\nThis boy’s dreadful tragedy I can still remember well,
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