Strange Fruit Chords by Billie Holiday

[Start]

[Intro]

[Verse]
Cm Cm                       Ab      G7   
■  ■  Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Cm                            Ab7         Fm
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root ■ 
                             Fm             
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Cm                                         
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees


[Intro]

[Verse]
G Fm                            Cm   
■ Pastoral scene of the gallant South
                         Cm           
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
         Dm7      Bbmaj7 Ab7            
Scent of magnolia ■      sweet and fresh
Cm                       Cm      G     G7
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh ■ 
Cm                      Ab7           
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck


[Chorus]
                                            G7
For the rain to gather for the wind to suck ■ 
            Cm Eb          Ab7         
For the sun to rot for the tree to drop
G7 Cm        Cm7         Ab7        
■  Here is a strange and bitter crop


[End]