{"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":1964171,"song":"The Death Of Emmett Till","artist":"Bob Dylan","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1964171-the-death-of-emmett-till-chords-by-bob-dylan/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1964171?type=chord","rating":4.71004,"votes":39,"content":"[tab][Chords]\r\nAm x-0-2-2-1-0\r\nC/G 3-0-2-0-1-0\r\nD/F# 2-0-0-2-3-2\r\nF 1-3-3-2-1-1\r\nE 0-2-2-1-0-0\r\n[Strum with some hammer-on's here and there on the Am and E chords or\r\nplay chords over a travis style picking pattern][/tab]\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\"Twas down in___ Mississippi, not so___ long ago,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhen a young boy___ from Chicago town, stepped through a___ Southern door.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThis boy's___ frightful tragedy, I can still___ remember well,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe color of___ his skin was black, and his name was___ Emmett Till.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSome men they dragged___ him to a barn, and there they___ beat him up.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey said they had___ a reason, but I___ can't remember what.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey tortured him___ and did some things, too evil to repeat.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere was screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds___ out on the street.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThen they rolled his___ body down a gulf, amidst a___ blood-red rain[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd they threw him in___ the waters w-ide to cease his screaming p-ain.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe___ reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it___ ain't no lie,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWas just for___ the fun of killin' him, and to___ watch him slowly die..[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd then to stop, the United States, of yelling___ for a trial,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTwo brothers they___ confessed that they, had killed p-oor Emmett Till.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] \r\nBut on the jury___ there were men, who helped the brothers commit this awful crime,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAnd so this trial was a__ mockery, but nobody there__ seemed to mind.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI saw the mor---ning papers, but I___ could not bear [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTo see the smiling___ brothers, walkin' down the courthouse stairs.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFor the jury f-ound them innocent, and the brothers they went free,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nWhile Emmett's bo--dy floats the foam, of a_ Jim Crow___ southern sea___.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIf you can't speak out, against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYour eyes are filled___ with dead men's dirt, your mind is filled with dust.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYour arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow___,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFor you let this human race, fall down so___ God-awful low![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThis song is just a reminder, to remind your___ fellow man[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat this kind of thing___ still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut if all of us folks, that thinks alike, if we give all__ we could give,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWe'd make this great, land of ours a___ greater___ place to live.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C/G[/ch] [ch]D/F#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nAm C/G D/F# F Am E Am\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nAm C/G D/F# F\nAm E Am","chords":["Am","C/G","D/F","F","E","D/F#"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C/G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,4,2,0,1,0],"frets":[3,3,2,0,1,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]}}}