Billie Holiday - The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945 - 1959

Strange Fruit - Live at Philharmonic Hall, Los Angeles, 1945

And now I will like to sing a tune
It was written specially for me
It's titled 'Strange Fruit', I believe you'll like it

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 poplar 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 a 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

Credits
Writer(s): Lewis Allan
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