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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