My Name is Emmett Till

I was born a black boy, my name is Emmett Till
 I walked this earth for 14 years, one night I was killed
 For speaking to a woman whose skin was white as dough
 That's a sin in Mississippi but how was I to know
 I'd come down from Chicago to visit with my kin
 Up there I was a cheeky kid, I guess I's always been
 But the harm they put upon me was too hard for what I'd done
 For I was just a black boy, I never hurt no one
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 They took me from my uncle's house, Mose Wright was his name
 He later standing, without hesitation point the blame
 At the ones who beat and cut me and shot me with a gun
 They threw me in the river like I was trash and they were done
 I was sent back to my mother, at least what was left of me
 She kept my casket open for the whole wide world to see
 The awful desecration and the evidence of hate
 You could not recognize me, the mutilation was so great
 There came a cry for justice
 To be finally fulfilled
 All because of me, a black boy
 My name is Emmett Till
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 Oh, but I'd have rather lived 'til I was too old to die young
 Not miss all I left behind, all that might have come
 Summer clouds above my head, a grass beneath my feet
 The warmth of a good woman, her kisses soft and sweet
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 Perhaps to be a father with a black boy of my own
 Watch him grow into a kinder world than I had known
 Where no child would be murdered for the color of his skin
 And love would be the only thing inside the hearts of men
 They say the horror of that night is haunting heaven still
 Where I am one more black boy, my name is Emmett Till