Strange Fruit by Diana Ross

This song was first sung by Billie Holiday. A very sad song with an equally sad historical background when blacks used to be hung on trees. This version is sung by Diana Ross.

Lyrics

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves, 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
the scent of magnolia 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