Strange Fruit
Aaron
(words & music Abel Meeropol)

Standard tuning: EADGBE
(Piano arranged for guitar)


Bm (x24432@1)            AG 
  Southern trees 
                F# (244322@1) Bearing strange fruit
Bm (x24432@1)                 AG 
  Blood on the leaves
                   F# (244322@1) And blood at the root

Em (022000@1)                                        BmA
  Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
  G (320003@1)                  F# (244322@1)        Bm (x24432@1)       A (x02220@1)G (320003@1)F# (244322@1)  Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Em (022000@1)             Bm (x24432@1)          A (x02220@1)   G (320003@1)F# (244322@1)  Pastoral scene of the gallow south
Em (022000@1)                  E (022100@1) And the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth

Bm (x24432@1)        A (x02220@1)        G (320003@1)        F# (244322@1) The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Em (022000@1)                    Bm (x24432@1)A (x02220@1)G (320003@1)F# (244322@1)          BmA GF#
  Then the sudden smell of        burning flesh

Bm (x24432@1)             A (x02220@1)G (320003@1)              F# (244322@1) Here is a fruit   for the crows to pluck
Em (022000@1) For the rain to gather
Em (022000@1) For the wind to suck
Em (022000@1) For the sun to rot
Em (022000@1)            Bm (x24432@1)A (x02220@1)G (320003@1)F# (244322@1) For the trees           to drop
Bm (x24432@1)            A (x02220@1) G (320003@1)       F# (244322@1)   Bm (x24432@1) Here is a strange  and bitter crop

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Tabbed by Sexytom, (w/ corrections by Ludovic)

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