Key: B
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
Bm
A
G
F#
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Em
Bm
A
G
F#
Bm
AG
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
Tabbed by Sexytom, (w/ corrections by Ludovic)