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Strange Fruit lyrics
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 suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter cry
Part of these releases
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- Track 2 on Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
- 1 Body & Soul
- 3 Trav'lin Light
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- Track 1 on The Commodore Master Takes
- 2 Yesterdays
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- Track 5 on The Ultimate Collection
- 4 Mean to Me
- 6 Fine And Mellow
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- Track 8 on The Complete 1951 Storyville Club Sessions
- 7 Detour Ahead
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- Track 2 on Fine and Mellow / Strange Fruit
- 1 Fine And Mellow
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- Track 16 on Eresco Jazz Session
- 15 Sophisticated Lady
- 17 Stars Fell On Alabama
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- Track 1 on Strange Fruit
- 2 Yesterdays
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- Track 11 on Always
- 10 Ain't Misbehavin'
- 12 Some Other Spring
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- Track 2 on Jazz at the Philharmonic
- 1 Body and Soul
- 3 I Cried For You
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- Track 18 on Ballads
- 17 Stars Fell On Alabama
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- Track 8 on The Quintessence: New York - Los Angeles 1934 - 1946 Disc 2
- 7 Body and Soul
- 9 You Better Go Now
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- Track 8 on The Essential Collection
- 7 You're My Thrill
- 9 God Bless the Child
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- Track 20 on The Very Best of Billie Holiday
- 19 Them There Eyes
- 21 Georgia on My Mind
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- Track 1 on The Essential Billie Holiday
- 2 That Ole Devil Called Love
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- Track 2 on Icon
- 1 Fine And Mellow
- 3 As Time Goes By
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- Track 9 on Billy's Blues
- 8 Any Old Time
- 10 Laughing at Life
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