xStrange 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
