Billie Holiday-Strange fruit- HD

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Uploaded by on Dec 22, 2011

A magic song from a magic voice

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Strange Fruit


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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This video is a response to Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime
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  • most beautiful fruit..

  • The masterpiece of Billie !

    Thanks a lot

  • Poplar trees, not popular trees

  • thank you for this. i have been looking for an HD version of this for a school project and this is exactly what i need :3 powerful song and beautiful lady.

  • Correction: it's not, "Strange and bitter cry." It's "strange and bitter crop."

  • Strange fruit....

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