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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 crow to pluck. For the rain to wither, for the wind to suck. For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop. Here is a strange and bitter crop. - Originally published as a poem in 1937 by Abel Meerpool, aka.
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The song (on YouTube) begins: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." The story of the song's creation is an unusual one.
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Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday Album: The Billie Holiday Story ( 1939) License This Song songfacts ® Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and 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
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Billie Holiday first performed "Strange Fruit" in 1939 at Café Society, New York City's first integrated jazz club, after reportedly being introduced to the song by the club's founder.
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Strange Fruit Lyrics [Verse 1] Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the.
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The Infamous Photograph that Inspired the Lyrics of "Strange Fruit" Meeropol's direct inspiration for writing "Strange Fruit" is an infamous photograph taken of two African-American men, Abraham Smith and J. Thomas Shipp, being lynched "by a mob of thousands" of White people on 7 August 1930. (The official estimate is that there.
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Famous Musicians Black History The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" To great controversy, Lady Day introduced the world to the racially charged protest song "Strange.
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Strange Fruit Lyrics by Billie Holiday from the Lady Day (1939-1944): The Sixteen Original Commodore Interpretations album- including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern bre…
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I needed to find a social justice issue in song or art form, so i decided to choose this song because to me it has to be one of the most powerful songs. The.
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The Strange Story Of The Man Behind 'Strange Fruit'. Abel Meeropol watches as his sons, Robert and Michael, play with a train set. One of Billie Holiday's most iconic songs is "Strange Fruit," a.
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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 crop Song Notes "Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939.
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- The making of an iconic song It was named the song of the century by Time magazine in 1999, and the story of Strange Fruit's conception has entered legend. Originally a poem called Bitter.
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Strange Fruit " Strange Fruit " is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees.