Title: Strange Fruit
Album: The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve, 1945-1959
Artist: Billie Holiday
Composer(s): Lewis Allan, Maurice Pearl, Dwayne P. Wiggins
Lyric:
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the popular trees
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
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter cry
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