Apéndice Bob Dylan the Death of Emmett Till 'Twas Down In
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Apéndice The smiling brothers walkin’ down the courthouse stairs Bob Dylan For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free The Death Of Emmett Till While Emmett’s body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea ’Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago If you can’t speak out against this kind When a young boy from Chicago town of thing, a crime that’s so unjust stepped through a Southern door Your eyes are filled with dead men’s This boy’s dreadful tragedy I can still dirt, your mind is filled with dust remember well Your arms and legs they must be in The color of his skin was black and his shackles and chains, and your blood name was Emmett Till it must refuse to flow For you let this human race fall down so Some men they dragged him to a barn God-awful low! and there they beat him up They said they had a reason, but I can’t This song is just a reminder to remind remember what your fellow man They tortured him and did some things That this kind of thing still lives today in too evil to repeat that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan There were screaming sounds inside But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if the barn, there was laughing sounds we gave all we could give out on the street We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain And they threw him in the waters wide Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues to cease his screaming pain The reason that they killed him there, Well, I was feelin’ sad and feelin’ blue and I’m sure it ain’t no lie I didn’t know what in the world I wus Was just for the fun of killin’ him and to gonna do watch him slowly die Them Communists they wus comin’ around And then to stop the United States of They wus in the air yelling for a trial They wus on the ground Two brothers they confessed that they They wouldn’t gimme no peace . had killed poor Emmett Till But on the jury there were men who So I run down most hurriedly helped the brothers commit this And joined up with the John Birch awful crime Society And so this trial was a mockery, but I got me a secret membership card nobody seemed to mind And started off a-walkin’ down the road Yee-hoo, I’m a real John Bircher now! I saw the morning papers but I could Look out you Commies! not bear to see 1 Now we all agree with Hitler’s views Well, I investigated all the books in the Although he killed six million Jews library It don’t matter too much that he was a Ninety percent of ’em gotta be burned Fascist away At least you can’t say he was a I investigated all the people that I Communist! knowed That’s to say like if you got a cold you Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go take a shot of malaria The other two percent are fellow Birchers . just like me Well, I wus lookin’ everywhere for them gol-darned Reds Now Eisenhower, he’s a Russian spy I got up in the mornin’ ’n’ looked under Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt my bed guy Looked in the sink, behind the door To my knowledge there’s just one man Looked in the glove compartment of my That’s really a true American: George car Lincoln Rockwell Couldn’t find ’em . I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus I wus lookin’ high an’ low for them Reds everywhere Well, I fin’ly started thinkin’ straight I wus lookin’ in the sink an’ underneath When I run outa things to investigate the chair Couldn’t imagine doin’ anything else I looked way up my chimney hole So now I’m sittin’ home investigatin’ I even looked deep down inside my myself! toilet bowl Hope I don’t find out anything . hmm, They got away . great God! Well, I wus sittin’ home alone an’ Jimi Hendrix started to sweat Figured they wus in my T.V. set If 6 was 9 Peeked behind the picture frame (Yeah) Got a shock from my feet, hittin’ right up (Sing a song, brother) in the brain If the sun refused to shine, Them Reds caused it! I don't mind, I don't mind. I know they did . them hard-core (Yeah) ones If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Well, I quit my job so I could work all Got my own world to live through alone And I ain't gonna copy you. Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, Followed some clues from my detective I don't mind, I don't mind. bag If all the hippies cut off their hair, And discovered they wus red stripes on I don't care, I don't care. the American flag! Did, 'cos I got my own world to live That ol’ Betsy Ross . through 2 And I ain't gonna copy you. In fact, they look so strange White-collar conservatives flashing Raise your glass to the hard working down the street people Pointing their plastic finger at me. Lets drink to the uncounted heads They're hoping soon my kind will drop Lets think of the wavering millions and die, Who need leaders but get gamblers But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high . instead . HIGH! Spare a thought for the stay-at-home Hah, hah voter Falling mountains just don't fall on me His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty Point on mister Buisnessman, shows You can't dress like me. And a parade of the gray suited grafters Nobody know what I'm talking about A choice of cancer or polio I've got my own life to live I'm the one that's gonna have to die And when I look in the faceless crowd When it's time for me to die A swirling mass of gray and So let me live my life the way I want to. Black and white They don't look real to me Yeah . Or don't they look so strange Sing on brother, Play on brother . Lets drink to the hard working people Lets think of the lowly of birth The Rolling Stones Spare a thought for the rag taggy Salt of the Earth people Lets drink to the salt of the earth Lets drink to the hard working people Lets drink to the lowly of birth Lets drink to the hard working people Raise your glass to the good and the Lets drink to the salt of the earth evil Lets drink to the two thousand million Lets drink to the salt of the earth Lets think of the humble of birth Black Sabbath Say a prayer for the common foot soldier War Pigs Spare a thought for his back breaking work Generals gathered in their masses, Say a prayer for his wife and his just like witches at black masses. children Evil minds that plot destruction, Who burn the fires and who still till the sorcerers of death's construction. earth In the fields the bodies burning, as the war machine keeps turning. And when I search a faceless crowd Death and hatred to mankind, A swirling mass of gray and poisoning their brainwashed minds. Black and white Oh lord, yeah! They don't look real to me 3 Politicians hide themselves away. me suben el agua la leche también They only started the war. subieron la mota también el alcohol Why should they go out to fight? y López Portillo va a ser el ganón They leave that role to the poor, yeah. es que nuestros impuestos están trabajando Time will tell on their power minds, es que nuestros impuestos están making war just for fun. trabajando Treating people just like pawns in y cada día hay que pagar más chess, wait till their judgement day comes, The Sex Pistols yeah. Anarchy in the U.K. Now in darkness world stops turning, I am an anti-christ ashes where the bodies burning. I am an anarchist No more War Pigs have the power, Don't know what I want but Hand of God has struck the hour. I know how to get it Day of judgement, God is calling, I wanna destroy the passer by cos I on their knees the war pigs crawling. Begging mercies for their sins, I wanna BE anarchy! Satan, laughing, spreads his wings. No dogs body! Oh lord, yeah! Anarchy for the U.K it's coming Three Souls in my Mind sometime and maybe I give a wrong time stop a traffic line Nuestros impuestos your future dream is a shopping La familia de Echeverría scheme a un gran viaje se piro doña Esther y su marido cos I, I wanna BE anarchy! se fueron a dar un roll In the city es que nuestros impuestos están trabajando How many ways to get what you want es que nuestros impuestos están I use the best I use the rest trabajando I use the enemy y cada día hay que pagar más I use anarchy cos I La tira ya tiene lujosas patrullas I wanna BE anarchy! que cuestan un dineral los sardos THE ONLY WAY TO BE! tienen armas nuevas pa'apañar al personal Is this the M.P.L.A es que nuestros impuestos Or is this the U.D.A están trabajando Or is this the I.R.A es que nuestros impuestos están I thought it was the U.K or just trabajando another country y cada día hay que pagar más another council tenancy Me suben la renta, me suben la luz I wanna be anarchy 4 and I wanna be anarchy God saves Know what I mean And I wanna be anarchist! God save the queen Get pissed, destroy! We mean it man And there is no future God Save the Queen In England's dreaming God save the queen No future, no future, The fascist regime No future for you They made you a moron No future, no future, Potential H-bomb No future for me God save the queen No future, no future, She ain't no human being There is no future No future for you No future, no future In England's dreaming For you Don't be told what you want Rage Against The Machine Don't be told what you need There's no future, no future, Know Your Enemy No future for you Huh! God save the queen Yeah, we're comin' back then with We mean it man another bombtrack We love our queen Think ya know what it's all about God saves Huh! Hey yo, so check this out God save the queen Yeah! 'Cause tourists are money Know your enemy! And our figurehead Come on! Is not what she seems Born with insight and a raised fist Oh God save history A witness to the slit wrist, that's with God save your mad parade As we move into '92 Oh Lord God