Released: October 21, 2014
Songwriter: Abel Meeropol
Producer: Mike Stevens Annie Lennox
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees
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- Why
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- Don’t Let It Bring You Down
- Little Bird
- A Whiter Shade of Pale
- Love Song for a Vampire
- Everybody Hurts
- Keep Young and Beautiful
- (I’m Always Touched) By Your Presence, Dear
- Thin Line Between Love and Hate
- Fingernail Moon
- Walking on Broken Glass (David Morales mix)
- Through the Glass Darkly
- Loneliness
- Womankind
- Step by Step
- Ladies of the Canyon
- Pavement Cracks (Shanghai Surprise vocal mix)
- Twisted
- Big Sky
- Precious