AaRON - Strange Fruit

      
 
 (words & music Abel Meeropol)
 
 Standard tuning: EADGBE
 (Piano arranged for guitar)
 
 Bm             A G 
  Southern trees 
               F#     
 Bearing strange fruit
 Bm                  A G 
  Blood on the leaves
                  F#  
 And blood at the root
 
 Em                                         Bm A 
  Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
 G                    F#          Bm        A G F# 
 Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
 Em              Bm            A    G F# 
  Pastoral scene of the gallow south
 Em                   E                     
  And the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
 ( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/a/aaron/strange_fruit_crd.html )
 Bm         A          G          F#   
  The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
 Em                     Bm A G F#           Bm A G F# 
  Then the sudden smell of   burning flesh
 
 Bm              A G                F#   
  Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
 Em                     
  For the rain to gather
 Em                   
  For the wind to suck
 Em                 
  For the sun to rot
 Em             Bm A G F#     
  For the trees    to drop
 Bm             A   G         F#    Bm 
  Here is a strange  and bitter crop

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