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Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit lyrics
Lewis Allen
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.
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| Songs list of album: Lady Live
(2005) |
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| 01 |
Them There Eyes lyrics |
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| 02 |
My Man lyrics |
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| 03 |
I Cover the Waterfront lyrics  |
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| 04 |
Billie's Blues lyrics |
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| 05 |
I Only Have Eyes for You lyrics |
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| 06 |
(I Got a Man, Crazy for Me) He's Funny That Way lyrics |
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| 07 |
I Loves You, Porgy lyrics |
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| 08 |
You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?) lyrics |
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| 09 |
T'Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do lyrics |
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| 10 |
Lover, Come Back to Me lyrics |
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| 11 |
Strange Fruit lyrics |
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| 12 |
Miss Brown to You lyrics |
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| 13 |
Detour Ahead lyrics |
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| 14 |
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) lyrics |
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| 15 |
Fine and Mellow lyrics |
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| 16 |
All of Me lyrics |
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| 17 |
You Go to My Head lyrics |
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| 18 |
Do Nothing 'Til You Hear from Me lyrics |
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| 19 |
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) lyrics |
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| 20 |
Crazy He Calls Me lyrics |
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| 21 |
Willow Weep for Me lyrics |
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| 22 |
Too Marvellous for Words lyrics |
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| 23 |
Lover, Come Back to Me [alternate take] lyrics |
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