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Bob Dylan - The 50th Anniversary Collection - The Death of Emmett Till
The 50th Anniversary Collection
Disc 1
01. Going Down to New Orleans
02. Going Down to New Orleans
03. Sally Gal
04. Sally Gal
05. Rambling Gambling Willie
06. Rambling Gambling Willie
07. Corrina, Corrina
08. Corrina, Corrina
09. The Death of Emmett Till
10. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
11. Rocks and Gravel (Solid Road)
12. Sally Gal
13. Sally Gal
14. Baby, Please Don't Go
15. Baby, Please Don't Go
16. Milk Cow (Calf's) Blues
17. Milk Cow (Calf's) Blues
18. Wichita Blues
19. Wichita Blues
20. Milk Cow (Calf's) Blues
21. Wichita Blues
22. Baby, I'm in the Mood for You
23. Blowin' in the Wind
24. Blowin' in the Wind
25. Worried Blues
26. Baby, I'm in the Mood for You
Disc 2
01. Bob Dylan's Blues
02. Bob Dylan's Blues
03. Corrina, Corrina
04. Corrina, Corrina
05. That's All Right, Mama
06. That's All Right, Mama
07. That's All Right, Mama
08. Mixed Up Confusion
09. Mixed Up Confusion
10. Mixed Up Confusion
11. Mixed Up Confusion
12. Mixed Up Confusion
13. Mixed Up Confusion
14. Mixed Up Confusion
15. That's All Right, Mama
16. Rocks and Gravel
17. Ballad of Hollis Brown
18. Kingsport Town
19. When Death Comes Creepin' (Whatcha Gonna Do?)
20. Hero Blues
21. When Death Comes Creepin' (Whatcha Gonna Do?)
22. I Shall Be Free
23. I Shall Be Free
24. Hero Blues
25. Hero Blues
Disc 3
01. Hard Times in New York Town
02. The Death of Emmett Till
03. I Rode Out One Morning
04. House of the Rising Sun
05. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
06. Ballad of Donald White
07. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
08. Talkin' New York
09. Corrina, Corrina
10. Deep Ellum Blues
11. Blowin' in the Wind
12. The Death of Emmett Till
13. Stealin'
14. Hiram Hubbard
15. Blowin' in the Wind
16. Rocks and Gravel
17. Quit Your Low Down Ways
18. He Was a Friend of Mine
19. Let Me Die in My Footsteps
20. Two Trains Runnin'
21. Ramblin' on My Mind
22. Muleskinner Blues
23. Muleskinner Blues (Part 2)
Disc 4
01. Sally Gal
02. Highway 51
03. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues
04. The Ballad of Hollis Brown
05. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
06. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
07. No More Auction Block
08. A Motherless Child
09. Kindhearted Woman Blues
10. Black Cross
11. The Ballad of Hollis Brown
12. Ain't No More Cane
It was down in Mississippi not so long ago
When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door
This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well
The color of his skin was black, and his name was Emmett Till

Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up
They said they had a reason, but I can't remember what
They tortured him and did some things, too evil to repeat
There were screaming sounds inside the barn
There was laughing sounds out on the street

Then they rolled his body down a gulf, amidst a bloody red rain
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain
The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it ain't no lie
Was just for the fun of killing him and to watch him slowly die

And then to stop, the United States of yelling for a trial
Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till
But on the jury, there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime
And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody there seemed to mind

I saw the morning papers, but I could not bear
To see the smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs
For the jury found them innocent, and the brothers they went free
While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea

If you can't speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust
Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt, your mind is filled with dust
Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow
For you to let this human race fall down so God-awful low!

This song's just a reminder to remind your fellow man
That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan
But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we give all we could give
We'd make this great land of ours a greater place to live