Strange Fruit

Billie Holiday

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Key: 
[First Part]


Cm                    Ab7     G7(9-)
Southern trees bear a strange fruit

Cm                    Ab7     
Blood on the leaves and blood at the

G7(9-)
 root

Fm                           
Black bodies swinging in the 

Dm7(5-)    G7(9-)
southern breeze

Cm                    Ab7     
Strange fruit hanging from the 

G7(9-)
poplar trees


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[Second Part]


Cm                    Ab7     G7(9-)
Pastoral scene of the gallant south

Cm                    Ab7     
The bulging eyes and the twisted 

G7(9-)
mouth

Fm                           
Scent of magnolias, sweet and

Dm7(5-)    G7(9-)
 fresh

Cm                    Ab7     
Then the sudden smell of burning 

G7(9-)
flesh

[Third Part]


Cm                    Ab7     G7(9-)
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck

Cm                    Ab7     
For the rain to gather, for the wind

G7(9-)
 to suck

Fm                           
For the sun to rot, for the 

Dm7(5-)    G7(9-)
trees to drop

Cm                    Ab7     G7(9-)
Here is a strange and bitter crop
Song details

Composition: Lewis Allan

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