Strange Fruit Lyrics

The song Strange Fruit is performed by Billie Holiday in the album named 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billie Holiday in the year 2002 .



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 popular 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 s*ck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter cry



Billie Holiday - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billie Holiday

Jul 2002

  1. Strange Fruit
  2. Fine And Mellow
  3. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)
  4. Don't Explain
  5. Good Morning Heartache
  6. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
  7. My Man (Mon Homme)
  8. I Loves You Porgy
  9. Lady Sings The Blues
  10. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
  11. I Cover The Waterfront
  12. God Bless The Child

Strange Fruit