Strange Fruit

Nina Simone

Lyrics 

Southern trees
 ♪
 Bearing strange fruit
 ♪
 Blood on the leaves
 ♪
 And blood at the roots
 ♪
 Black bodies
 Swinging in the southern breeze
 ♪
 Strange fruit hangin'
 From the poplar trees
 ♪
 Pastoral scene
 Of the gallant south
 ♪
 Them big bulging eyes
 And the twisted mouth
 ♪
 Scent of magnolia
 Clean 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 leaves to drop
 
 Here is
 Strange and bitter crop
 
 Southern trees
 ♪
 Bearing strange fruit
 ♪
 Blood on the leaves
 ♪
 And blood at the roots
 ♪
 Black bodies
 Swinging in the southern breeze
 ♪
 Strange fruit hangin'
 From the poplar trees
 ♪
 Pastoral scene
 Of the gallant south
 ♪
 Them big bulging eyes
 And the twisted mouth
 ♪
 Scent of magnolia
 Clean 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 leaves to drop
 
 Here is
 Strange and bitter crop

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Song Details

Duration
03:28
Tempo
93 BPM

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