Strange Fruit
Cover of Lews Allan
Live Released
Cover of Lews Allan
Live Released
| 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. Here is 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 crop. | Notes: Strange Fruit began as a poem about the lynching of a black man written by a radical Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx Abel Meeropol, who used the pen name Lewis Allan (the names of his two children, who died in infancy). Meeropol also set his poem to music, now most reknowned in performance by Billie Holiday. |
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94-01-25 'Man on the Moon', 89.9 KCRW, Santa Monica, California, America |