best song of 1939

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

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[Z]

Isn't this song about seeing lynched men hanging from trees?

[Omah]

Isn't this song about seeing lynched men hanging from trees?

Yep, it ain't exactly cheerful :

Southern trees bear a 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.

:eek:

[Tom4784]

Billie Holiday <3

It's an amazing song, grim in subject matter but meaningful.

[Alf]

I'd say these 1939 song's have aged the best

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[Shaun]

Strange Fruit is being rehashed by TNGHT on Kanye's new album apparently. :/

[Ammi]

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[sooty]

How about this song?:amazed:
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