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Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit Lyrics

Song details
Title Strange Fruit
Artist Billie Holiday
Album Love Come Back To Me (1995) , Track 14 ,
1935-1942 (1996) , Track 12 ,
Lady Day's 25 Greatest 1933-44 (1996) , Track 25 ,
Ultimate Billie Holiday (1997) , Track 12 ,
Billie's Blues (1998) , Track 9 ,
Classic Decade (1998) , Track 2 ,
Strange Fruit 1937-1939 (2000) , Track 22 ,
1 Single Artist (2005) , Track 2

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Song lyrics
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh

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



lyrics submitted by Alisha Domino
lyrics corrected by josh on 30-01-2008

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