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Quotes from Strange Fruit — Billie Holiday

1915–1959 United States

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Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.

Misattributed Strange Fruit (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Billie Holiday (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.