備忘録 Strange Fruit– Billie Holiday : Supporting peaceful demonstration against Mr. George Floyd’s death, I will post protest songs against racism from my library for 30 days.フロイドさんの死に対する平和的なデモを支持し、向こう30日間、人種差別と闘うためのプロテストソングをポストします。

Day 5 Strange Fruit Billie Holiday 1939

Southern trees bearing 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 a fruit for the crow to pluck
For the rain to wither, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop.