Strange Fruit Tabulatur von Billie Holiday (für Baryton)

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Southern trees bear a strange fruit
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Blood on the leaves and blood at the root 
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Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
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Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

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Pastoral scene of the gallant south
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The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth;
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Smell of mag - nolia, sweet And fresh,        
           Fdim7  Dm6         Fdim7        E7
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

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