Strange Fruit-Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra

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[00:00.00]Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
[01:09.97]Southern trees bear strange fruit
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[01:17.39]Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
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[01:25.07]Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
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[01:33.00]Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
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[01:48.66]Pastoral scene of the gallant south
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[01:56.96]The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
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[02:04.58]Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
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[02:12.87]Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
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[02:21.04]Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
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[02:28.03]For the rain to gather for the wind to suck
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[02:36.20]For the sun to rot for the trees to drop
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[02:49.80]Here is a strange and bitter crop