[00:00.000] 作词 : Bob Dylan
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Bob Dylan
[00:04.94]'Twas down in Mississippi
[00:10.53]Not so long ago,
[00:14.24]When a young boy from Chicago
[00:19.01]Walk through a southern door.
[00:24.39]This boy's faithful tragedy
[00:28.23]You should all remember well,
[00:32.88]The color of his skin was black
[00:37.49]And his name was Emmett Till.
[00:44.61]Some men they dragged him to a barn
[00:50.43]And there they beat him up.
[00:54.15]They said they had a reason,
[00:58.51]But I disremember what.
[01:02.92]They tortured him and did some things
[01:07.91]Too evil to repeat.
[01:12.43]There was screaming sounds inside the barn,
[01:17.08]There was laughing sounds out on the street.
[01:22.86]Then they rolled his body down a gulf
[01:27.51]Amidst a blood-red rain
[01:32.15]And they threw him in the waters wide
[01:36.75]To cease his screaming pain.
[01:41.35]The reason that they killed him there,
[01:45.89]And I'm sure it wasn’t no lie,
[01:50.33]Was just for the fun of killin' him
[01:54.81]And to watch him slowly die
[01:59.66]And then to stop the United States
[02:04.02]Of yelling for a trial,
[02:08.51]Two brothers they confessed that they
[02:13.07]Had killed poor Emmett Till.
[02:17.27]But on the jury there were men
[02:21.88]Who helped the brothers commit this awful crime,
[02:26.85]And so this trial was a mockery,
[02:31.13]But nobody seemed to mind.
[02:36.80]I saw the morning papers
[02:42.59]But I could not bear
[02:46.10]To see the smiling brothers
[02:50.62]Walkin' down the courthouse stairs.
[02:55.14]For the jury found them innocent
[02:59.62]And the brothers they went free,
[03:04.27]While Emmett's body floats the foam
[03:08.76]Of a Jim Crow southern sea.
[03:15.60]If you can't speak out against this kind of thing,
[03:20.32]A crime that's so unjust,
[03:24.77]Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt,
[03:29.34]Your mind is filled with dust.
[03:33.79]Your arms and legs
[03:35.99]They must be in shackles and chains,
[03:38.47]And your blood it must refuse to flow,
[03:42.74]For you let this human race
[03:47.19]Fall down so god-awful low!
[03:51.91]This song is just a reminder
[03:56.19]To remind your fellow man
[04:00.72]That this kind of thing still lives today
[04:05.20]In that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan.
[04:09.81]But if all us folks that thinks alike,
[04:14.09]If we gave all we could give,
[04:18.77]We could make this great land of ours
[04:23.26]A greater place to live.