Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Emmylou Harris 
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
D5      2-3-2-0-0-0
G5      3-3-0-0-5-5
A5      0-2-2-2-0-x
B5     2-3-4-4-2-x

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 D5  %  %  % 

D5 
I was born a black boy
   G5
My name is Emmett Till
A5
Walked this earth for 14 years
G5               D5
One night I was killed
    D5
For speaking to a woman
      ?G5
Whose skin was white as dough
         D5
That's a sin in Mississippi
    D5            A5
But how was I to know?

    D5
I'd come down from Chicago
   G5
To visit with my kin
   A5
Up there I was a cheeky kid
  G5              D5
I guess I always been
        D5
But the harm they put upon me
        G5
Was too hard for what I done
    D5
For I was just a black boy
  A5             D5
I never hurt no one

D5        G5     D5
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D5        A5     D5
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

     D5
They took me from my uncle's house
G5
Mose Wright was his name
        A5                          G5
He'd be later standing without hesitation
          D5
Point the blame
       D5
At the ones who beat and cut me
    G5
And shot me with a gun
    D5
And threw me in the river
           D5                    A5
Like I was trash when they were done

      D5
I was sent back to my mother
         G5
At least what was left of me
    A5
She kept my casket open
        G5                   D5
For the whole wide world to see
    D5
The awful desecration
        G5
And the evidence of hate
    D5
You could not recognize me
        A5             D5
The mutilation was so great


  B5
Became a cry for justice then
      A5
To be finally fulfilled
      G5              D5
All because of me, a black boy
   A5               D5
My name was Emmett Till


D5        G5     D5
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D5        A5     D5
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

D5        G5     D5
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D5        A5     D5
Oh oh oh oh oh oh


         D5
Oh, that I had rather lived
           G5
Till I was too old to die young
A5
Not miss all I left behind
G5                   D5
All that might have come
D5
Summer clouds above my head
    G5
The grass beneath my feet
    D5
The warmth of a good woman
    D5               A5
Her kisses soft and sweet

   D5
Perhaps to be a father
       G5
With a black boy of my own
A5                            G5
Watch him grow into a kinder world
           D5
Than I had known
      D5
Where no child would be murdered
        G5
For the color of his skin
    D5
And love would be the only thing
  A5                  D5
Inside the hearts of men

     B5
They say the horror of that night
   A5
Is haunting heaven still
      G5             D5
Where I am one more black boy
   A5              D5
My name is Emmett Till

D5        G5     D5
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D5        A5     D5
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

D5        G5     D5
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D5        A5     D5
Oh oh oh oh oh oh