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 

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 


Tabbed by Sexytom, (w/ corrections by Ludovic) 

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