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My Name Is Emmett Till

I was born a black boy

My name is Emmett Till

Walked this earth for 14 years

One night I was killed

For speaking to a woman

Whose skin was white as dough

That's a sin in Mississippi

But how was I to know?I come down from Chicago

To visit with my kin

There I was a cheeky kid

I guess I always been

But the harm they put upon me

Was too hard for what I done

For I was just a black boy

I never hurt no oneOh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh ohThey took me from my uncle's house

Mose Wright was his name

He'd be later standing without hesitation

Point the blame

At the ones who beat and cut me

And shot me with the gun

And threw me in the river

Like I was trash when they were doneI was sent back to my mother

At least what was left of me

She kept my casket open

For the whole wide world to see

The awful desecration

And the evidence of hate

You could not recognize me

The mutilation was so greatBecame a cry for justice then

To be finally fulfilled

All because of me, a black boy

My name was Emmett TillOh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh ohOh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh ohOh, I had rather lived

Till I was too old to die young

Not even a soul I left behind

All that might have come

Summer clouds above my head

The grass beneath my feet

The warmth of a good woman

Her kisses soft and sweetPerhaps to be a father

Of a black boy of my own

Watch him grow into a kinder world

Than I had known

Where no child would be murdered

For the color of his skin

And love would be the only thing

Inside the hearts of menThey say the horror of that night

Is haunting heaven still

Where I am one more black boy

My name is Emmett TillOh oh oh oh oh oh

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