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Strange Fruit Lyrics. [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...
Billie Holiday Lyrics. "Strange Fruit". 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. Pastoral scene of the gallant South. The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth. Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh.
"Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the
- April 20, 1939
- "Fine and Mellow"
- 1939
Strange Fruit Lyrics by Billie Holiday from the The Billie Holiday Songbook album- including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern bre….
Lyrics. 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.
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by Billie Holiday. Album: The Billie Holiday Story ( 1939) License This Song . songfacts ®. 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. Pastoral scene of the gallant South.
