Audra McDonald - Strange Fruit Lyrics

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Audra McDonald - Strange Fruit Lyrics

(Song from Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Show 2014)

Southern trees bear a 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 magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop


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Somebody's on My Mind
Foolin' Myself
Crazy He Calls Me
When a Woman Loves a Man
I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
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What a Little Moonlight Can Do
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Down With Love
Wonderful You
I Won't Mind
I Wanna Get Married
My Heart
God Give Me Strength
Your Daddy's Son
Tom Cat Goodbye
Mister Snow
Simple Little Things
Summertime
I Could Have Danced All Night
My Man's Gone Now
Stars And The Moon