Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit download song

This is SO dark, but GOOD dark. Stamping out racism is EVERYONE'S problem. Lord have mercy.

Justice for Ahmaud Arbery

She lost her life because she refused to stop singing this song...RIP QUEEN

Blood on the trees .Blood on the roots.This song is so poetic and haunting..You can imagine at that time the shock the smell the actual pain of living in this era.and surviving...

Song gave me the creeps. Can only shake my head at this truth. This is heavy.

Billie Holiday. Nina Simone. Aretha Franklin. These three American ladies awed and haunted me with their songs, their voices, the way they sing. Love them all.

The reality of her words are terrifying and haunting. To know human lives has suffered this because of something so simple as their skin color.

One of the deepest, darkest, honest songs ever recorded. Billie is a Goddess and I love her.

This still remains as one of the darkest songs I have ever heard.

If you read her life story, you will see that she paid a heavy price for singing this song. The FBI basically destroyed her career.

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They told the hospital to stop medication for her and she died. She wouldn't stop singing it and was basically murdered for the truth.

Growing up I didn’t understand the meaning of this song. Now that I’m an adult the meaning holds such a deeper meaning the sad truth of what our ancestors had to go through I give my deepest respect to them. Happy African American History Day ! ❤️

Banned at the time but now rightfully recognised as a 20th century classic

In my school I am studying International relations and in one subject called USA and Canada: History and Polítics, we had a lecture about the KKK and the Jim Crow Laws and I told the teacher about this song while watching an image of a lynching in the Deep South and I read the lyrics of this song in front of the class (which nobody but me knew about the song) and they were quite shocked specially the teacher You can learn very well from music I am a light skin Mexican and I love African American music, it’s very beautiful!!!

For those who need to read along: Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and 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 Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burning flesh Here is fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop

The government killed her because she wouldn’t stop singing this song.

This song, the lyrics has never ever been as current in the USA. The lynching of black men still alive and well just under a different form.

This song and her life needs to be in the school's curriculum