My Name Is Emmett Till by Emmylou Harris, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

My Name Is Emmett Till

Biography:

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, and an interpreter of other composers' works, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Gram Parsons, The Band, Linda Ronstadt, Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Mark Knopfler, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Rodney Crowell, John Denver and Neil Young.

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My Name is Emmett Till - Emmylou Harris
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Written by: Emmylou Harris
From: "Hard Bargain" (2011)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

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

D-A-D-G-B-e
D 0-0-0-2-3-2
G 5-5-0-0-3-3
A x-0-2-2-2-0
Bm x-2-4-4-3-2

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| D | % | % | % |

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

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

D G D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D A D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

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

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

Bm
Became a cry for justice then
A
To be finally fulfilled
G D
All because of me, a black boy
A D
My name was Emmett Till

D G D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D A D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

D G D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D A D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

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

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

Bm
They say the horror of that night
A
Is haunting heaven still
G D
Where I am one more black boy
A D
My name is Emmett Till

D G D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D A D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

D G D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
D A D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh