Strange Fruit (1939)
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Southern trees bear a strange fruit </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Blood on the leaves, blood at the root </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Pastoral scene of the gallant South </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Then the sudden smell of burning flesh </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">Here is a strange and bitter crop </span></p>