Strange Fruit Chords & Lyrics by Aaron

Strange Fruit

guitar chords lyrics

Aaron

Strange Fruit
Aaron
(words & music Abel Meeropol)

Standard tuning: EADGBE
(Piano arranged for guitar)


Bm A G
Southern trees

F#
Bearing strange fruit
Bm A G
Blood on the leaves
F#
And blood at the root

Em Bm A
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
G F# Bm A G F#
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Em Bm A G F#
Pastoral scene of the gallow south
Em E
And the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth

Bm A G F#
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Em Bm A G F# Bm A G F#
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Bm A G F#
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
Em
For the rain to gather
Em
For the wind to suck
Em
For the sun to rot
Em Bm A G F#
For the trees to drop
Bm A G F# Bm
Here is a strange and bitter crop

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Tabbed by Sexytom, (w/ corrections by Ludovic)

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