Emmylou Harris- My Name Is Emmett Till Chords
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[D]
I was born a black boy, [G] my [D] name is Emmett Till.
[A] I walked this earth for fourteen [D] years, and one night I [D] was killed.
For speaking to a woman whose skin was white as dough,
that's a sin in Mississippi, but how was I to [A] know?
I'd [D] come down from Chicago [G] to [D] visit with my kin.
[A] Up there I was a cheeky kid, I guess I [D] always been.
But the harm they put upon me was too hard for what I'd done.
For I was just a black boy, [A] I never hurt [D] no one.
[G] [D]
[A] [D] It took me from my uncle's house, [G] [D] Beaudroit was his name.
[A] He'd later stand, and without [G] hesitation point [D] the blade
at the ones who beat and cut me and shot me with a gun.
Threw me in the river like I was trash when they were [A] done
I [D] was sent back to my mother, at least what was left of me
She [A] kept my casket open for [G] the whole wide [D] world to see
The awful desecration and the evidence of me
You could not recognize me, the [A] mutilation was [D] so great
[A]
[Bm] Came across for justice, to [A] be finally fulfilled
All [G] because [D] of me, a black boy, [A] my name is Emmett [D] Till
[G] [D]
[A] [D]
[G] [D]
Oh, [A] [D]
but I'd rather live till I was too old to die young
[A] Not miss all 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 [A] sweet
[D] Perhaps to be a father with a black boy of my own
[A] Watch him grow into a kind of [G] world that I [D] know
Where no child would be murdered for [G] the color of his skin
[D] And love would be the only thing [A] inside the hearts of [D] men
[Bm] Say the horror of the night, [A] taunting heaven still
Where I am [D] one more black boy, [A] my name is Emmett [D] Till
[G] [D]
[A] [D]
[G] [D]
I was born a black boy, [G] my [D] name is Emmett Till.
[A] I walked this earth for fourteen [D] years, and one night I [D] was killed.
For speaking to a woman whose skin was white as dough,
that's a sin in Mississippi, but how was I to [A] know?
I'd [D] come down from Chicago [G] to [D] visit with my kin.
[A] Up there I was a cheeky kid, I guess I [D] always been.
But the harm they put upon me was too hard for what I'd done.
For I was just a black boy, [A] I never hurt [D] no one.
[G] [D]
[A] [D] It took me from my uncle's house, [G] [D] Beaudroit was his name.
[A] He'd later stand, and without [G] hesitation point [D] the blade
at the ones who beat and cut me and shot me with a gun.
Threw me in the river like I was trash when they were [A] done
I [D] was sent back to my mother, at least what was left of me
She [A] kept my casket open for [G] the whole wide [D] world to see
The awful desecration and the evidence of me
You could not recognize me, the [A] mutilation was [D] so great
[A]
[Bm] Came across for justice, to [A] be finally fulfilled
All [G] because [D] of me, a black boy, [A] my name is Emmett [D] Till
[G] [D]
[A] [D]
[G] [D]
Oh, [A] [D]
but I'd rather live till I was too old to die young
[A] Not miss all 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 [A] sweet
[D] Perhaps to be a father with a black boy of my own
[A] Watch him grow into a kind of [G] world that I [D] know
Where no child would be murdered for [G] the color of his skin
[D] And love would be the only thing [A] inside the hearts of [D] men
[Bm] Say the horror of the night, [A] taunting heaven still
Where I am [D] one more black boy, [A] my name is Emmett [D] Till
[G] [D]
[A] [D]
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I was born a black boy, [G] my [D] name is Emmett Till.
[A] I walked this earth for fourteen [D] years, and one night I [D] was killed. _
_ For speaking to a woman whose skin was white as dough,
that's a sin in Mississippi, but how was I to [A] know?
I'd [D] come down from Chicago [G] to [D] visit with my kin.
[A] Up there I was a cheeky kid, I guess I [D] always been.
_ But the harm they put upon me was too hard for what I'd done.
For I was just a black boy, [A] I never hurt [D] no one. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [D] It _ took me from my uncle's house, [G] [D] Beaudroit was his name.
[A] He'd later stand, and without [G] hesitation point [D] the blade
at the ones who beat and cut me and shot me with a gun.
Threw me in the river like I was trash when they were [A] done
_ I [D] was sent back to my mother, at least what was left of me
She [A] kept my casket open for [G] the whole wide [D] world to see
_ The awful _ desecration and the evidence of me
You could not recognize me, the [A] mutilation was [D] so great
[A] _
[Bm] Came across for justice, to [A] be finally fulfilled
All [G] because [D] of me, a black boy, [A] my name is Emmett [D] Till _
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ Oh, [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ but I'd rather live till I was too old to die young
[A] Not miss all 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 [A] sweet _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Perhaps to be a father with a black boy of my own
[A] Watch him grow into a kind of [G] world that I [D] know
_ _ Where no child would be murdered for [G] the color of his skin
[D] And love would be the only thing [A] inside the hearts of [D] men
_ _ [Bm] Say the horror of the night, [A] taunting heaven still
Where I am [D] one more black boy, [A] my name is Emmett [D] Till _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I was born a black boy, [G] my [D] name is Emmett Till.
[A] I walked this earth for fourteen [D] years, and one night I [D] was killed. _
_ For speaking to a woman whose skin was white as dough,
that's a sin in Mississippi, but how was I to [A] know?
I'd [D] come down from Chicago [G] to [D] visit with my kin.
[A] Up there I was a cheeky kid, I guess I [D] always been.
_ But the harm they put upon me was too hard for what I'd done.
For I was just a black boy, [A] I never hurt [D] no one. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [D] It _ took me from my uncle's house, [G] [D] Beaudroit was his name.
[A] He'd later stand, and without [G] hesitation point [D] the blade
at the ones who beat and cut me and shot me with a gun.
Threw me in the river like I was trash when they were [A] done
_ I [D] was sent back to my mother, at least what was left of me
She [A] kept my casket open for [G] the whole wide [D] world to see
_ The awful _ desecration and the evidence of me
You could not recognize me, the [A] mutilation was [D] so great
[A] _
[Bm] Came across for justice, to [A] be finally fulfilled
All [G] because [D] of me, a black boy, [A] my name is Emmett [D] Till _
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ Oh, [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ but I'd rather live till I was too old to die young
[A] Not miss all 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 [A] sweet _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Perhaps to be a father with a black boy of my own
[A] Watch him grow into a kind of [G] world that I [D] know
_ _ Where no child would be murdered for [G] the color of his skin
[D] And love would be the only thing [A] inside the hearts of [D] men
_ _ [Bm] Say the horror of the night, [A] taunting heaven still
Where I am [D] one more black boy, [A] my name is Emmett [D] Till _ _ _
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