Diana Ross

Songwriter: Abel Meeropol

Producer: Gil Askey

[Verse 1:]
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the roots

Black bodies swingin'
In the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin'
From the poplar trees

[Verse 2:]
Pastoral scene of
The gallant south
The bulging eyes and twisted mouth

Scent of magnolias
Sweet and fresh
And the sudden smell
Of burning flesh

[Verse 3:]
Here is the 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

Diana Ross is an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer.

She rose to fame as the lead singer of The Supremes, which, during the 1960s, became Motown’s most successful act and is to this day America’s most successful vocal group as well as one of the world’s best-selling girl groups of all time. Departing from the Supremes in 1970, Ross released her debut solo album, Diana Ross, which contained the hits “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)” and the #1 hit “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”.

She released the album Touch Me in the Morning in 1973. Its title track reached #1, becoming her second solo hit.

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