Standard tuning: EADGBE
(Piano arranged for guitar)


B5              A5 G5 
  Southern trees 
                F#5
  Bearing strange fruit
B5                   A5 G5 
  Blood on the leaves
                   F#5
  And blood at the root

E5                                          B5 A5
  Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
  G5                    F#5          B5         A5  G5  F#5 
  Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
E5               B5            A5     G5  F#5 
  Pastoral scene of the gallow south
E5                    E5
  And the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth

B5          A5          G5          F#5
  The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
E5                      B5  A5  G5  F#5            B5 A5 G5 F#5
  Then the sudden smell of        burning flesh

B5               A5  G5                F#5
  Here is a fruit   for the crows to pluck
E5
  For the rain to gather
E5
  For the wind to suck
E5
  For the sun to rot
E5              B5  A5  G5  F#5
  For the trees           to drop
B5              A5   G5         F#5     B5
  Here is a strange  and bitter crop

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