Emmylou Harris – My Name Is Emmett Till (Ukulele)
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Tabbed by: maguri
My Name is Emmett Till (2011)
(Emmylou Harris)
From: "Hard Bargain"
Sounds like Harris uses an open-D tuning here. If you don't want to retune
so many strings: drop-D is close.
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Drop-D CHORDS
e-B-G-D-A-D
C 2-3-2-0-0-0
F 3-3-0-0-5-5
G 0-2-2-2-0-x
Am 2-3-4-4-2-x
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C I was born a black boy F My name is Emmett Till G Walked this earth for 14 years F C One night I was killed C For speaking to a woman ´F Whose skin was white as dough C That's a sin in Mississippi C G But how was I to know? C I'd come down from Chicago F To visit with my kin G Up there I was a cheeky kid F C I guess I always been C But the harm they put upon me F Was too hard for what I done C For I was just a black boy G C I never hurt no one C F C Oh oh oh oh oh oh C G C Oh oh oh oh oh oh C They took me from my uncle's house F Mose Wright was his name G F He'd be later standing without hesitation C Point the blame C At the ones who beat and cut me F And shot me with a gun C And threw me in the river C G Like I was trash when they were done C I was sent back to my mother F At least what was left of me G She kept my casket open F C For the whole wide world to see C The awful desecration F And the evidence of hate C You could not recognize me G C The mutilation was so great Am Became a cry for justice then G To be finally fulfilled F C All because of me, a black boy G C My name was Emmett Till C F C Oh oh oh oh oh oh C G C Oh oh oh oh oh oh C F C Oh oh oh oh oh oh C G C Oh oh oh oh oh oh C Oh, that I had rather lived F Till I was too old to die young G Not miss all I left behind F C All that might have come C Summer clouds above my head F The grass beneath my feet C The warmth of a good woman C G Her kisses soft and sweet C Perhaps to be a father F With a black boy of my own G F Watch him grow into a kinder world C Than I had known C Where no child would be murdered F For the color of his skin C And love would be the only thing G C Inside the hearts of men Am They say the horror of that night G Is haunting heaven still F C Where I am one more black boy G C My name is Emmett Till C F C Oh oh oh oh oh oh C G C Oh oh oh oh oh oh C F C Oh oh oh oh oh oh C G C Oh oh oh oh oh oh