Strange Fruit

Song Strange Fruit
Artist Billie Holiday
Album Lady Sings The Blues

Lyrics

[ti:strange fruit]
[ar:billie holiday]
[00:25.142] Billie Holiday -Strange Fruit
[00:28.567] Southern trees bear strange fruit,
[00:40.894] Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
[00:52.236] Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
[01:02.622] Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
[01:17.693] Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
[01:26.510] The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
[01:37.520] Scent of magnolias,sweet and fresh,
[01:48.717] Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
[01:59.458] Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
[02:08.154] For the rain to gather,for the wind to suck,
[02:18.518] For the sun to rot,for the trees to drop,
[02:34.675] Here is a strange and bitter crop.