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[ti:strange fruit] |
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[ar:billie holiday] |
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Billie Holiday -Strange Fruit |
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Southern trees bear strange fruit, |
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Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, |
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Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, |
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Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. |
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Pastoral scene of the gallant south, |
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The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, |
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Scent of magnolias,sweet and fresh, |
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Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. |
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Here is fruit for the crows to pluck, |
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For the rain to gather,for the wind to suck, |
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For the sun to rot,for the trees to drop, |
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Here is a strange and bitter crop. |