Strange Fruit

Abel Meeropol

[Verse 1]
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the roots
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
All their strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

[Verse 2]
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and twisted mouth
The gentle scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

[Verse 3]
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun, oh, for the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is the strange and bitter crop

[Spoken Outro]
Lynchings, beatings, castrations, and more lynchings
It almost passes human understanding
How a people could be so socially despised and yet artistically esteemed
So degraded and yet culturally influential
So ostracized and yet a dominant editorial force in American life
Alain Locke, Harlem Renaissance

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Wann wurde das Lied “Strange Fruit” von Sounds of Blackness veröffentlicht?
Das Lied Strange Fruit wurde im Jahr 1994, auf dem Album “Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum” veröffentlicht.
Wer hat das Lied “Strange Fruit” von Sounds of Blackness komponiert?
Das Lied “Strange Fruit” von Sounds of Blackness wurde von Abel Meeropol komponiert.

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