Letra de Strange Fruit

southern trees bear strange fruit blood at the leaves blood at the root black bodies swinging in the southern breeze strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees pastoral scene of the gallant south the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth scent of magnolia sweet and fresh then the sudden smell of burning flesh here is a fruit for the crows to pluck for the rain to gather for the wind to suck the sun to rot the tree to drop here is a strange and bitter crop