Song Title: Strange Fruit

Artist: Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra

Release Date: 1939

Genre: Jazz

Song Writers: Abel Meeropol

Publisher: Commodore Records 

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[Verse 1]
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root 
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

[Verse 2]
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

[Verse 3]
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop