{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1101078,"song":"My Name Is Emmett Till","artist":"Emmylou Harris","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1101078-my-name-is-emmett-till-chords-by-emmylou-harris/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1101078?type=chord","rating":4.63473,"votes":6,"content":"---------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n                My Name is Emmett Till - Emmylou Harris\r\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nWritten by: Emmylou Harris\r\nFrom: \"Hard Bargain\" (2011)\r\n\r\nTabbed by: maguri\r\nTuning: Standard\r\n\r\nSounds like Harris uses an open-D tuning here. If you don't want to retune \r\nso many strings: drop-D is close.\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nDrop-D CHORDS\r\n\r\n[tab]       D-A-D-G-B-e\r\nD      0-0-0-2-3-2\r\nG      5-5-0-0-3-3\r\nA      x-0-2-2-2-0\r\nBm     x-2-4-4-3-2[/tab]\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n [Intro]\r\n| [ch]D[/ch] | % | % | % |\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] \r\nI was born a black boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy name is Emmett Till[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nWalked this earth for 14 years[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOne night I was killed[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor speaking to a woman[/tab]\r\n      ´G\r\nWhose skin was white as dough\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat's a sin in Mississippi[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut how was I to know?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'd come down from Chicago[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo visit with my kin[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nUp there I was a cheeky kid[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI guess I always been[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut the harm they put upon me[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWas too hard for what I done[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor I was just a black boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI never hurt no one[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh oh oh oh oh oh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh oh oh oh oh oh[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey took me from my uncle's house[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nMose Wright was his name[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe'd be later standing without hesitation[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nPoint the blame[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAt the ones who beat and cut me[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd shot me with a gun[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd threw me in the river[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nLike I was trash when they were done[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI was sent back to my mother[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAt least what was left of me[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe kept my casket open[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor the whole wide world to see[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe awful desecration[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the evidence of hate[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou could not recognize me[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe mutilation was so great[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBecame a cry for justice then[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo be finally fulfilled[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAll because of me, a black boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMy name was Emmett Till[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh oh oh oh oh oh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh oh oh oh oh oh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh oh oh oh oh oh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh oh oh oh oh oh[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh, that I had rather lived[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTill I was too old to die young[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nNot miss all I left behind[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAll that might have come[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nSummer clouds above my head[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe grass beneath my feet[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe warmth of a good woman[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHer kisses soft and sweet[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nPerhaps to be a father[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith a black boy of my own[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWatch him grow into a kinder world[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThan I had known[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere no child would be murdered[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor the color of his skin[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd love would be the only thing[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nInside the hearts of men[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThey say the horror of that night[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIs haunting heaven still[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere I am one more black boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMy name is Emmett Till[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh oh oh oh oh oh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh oh oh oh oh oh[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh oh oh oh oh oh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOh oh oh oh oh oh[/tab]","plain_text":"---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n                My Name is Emmett Till - Emmylou Harris\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nWritten by: Emmylou Harris\nFrom: \"Hard Bargain\" (2011)\n\nTabbed by: maguri\nTuning: Standard\n\nSounds like Harris uses an open-D tuning here. If you don't want to retune \nso many strings: drop-D is close.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDrop-D CHORDS\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n [Intro]\n| D | % | % | % |\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n      ´G\nWhose skin was white as dough\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["D","A","G","B","Bm"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}