Outsider

Strange Fruit (Outsider Mix) - Various Artists
Southern trees bear 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
Scent of magnolias,
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
For the sun to rot,
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange
and bitter crop