Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (Live 1945 Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles) - translation of the lyrics into French

Lyrics and translation Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (Live 1945 Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles)




Strange Fruit (Live 1945 Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles)
Fruit étrange (Live 1945 Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles)
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Les arbres du Sud portent des fruits étranges
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Du sang sur les feuilles et du sang à la racine
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Des corps noirs balancés dans la brise du Sud
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Des fruits étranges suspendus aux peupliers
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
Scène pastorale du Sud galant
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Les yeux exorbités et la bouche tordue
Scent of Magnolias, sweet and fresh
Le parfum des magnolias, doux et frais
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Puis l'odeur soudaine de chair brûlée
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
Voici des fruits pour que les corbeaux les cueillent
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
Pour que la pluie les rassemble, pour que le vent les aspire
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Pour que le soleil les fasse pourrir, pour que les arbres les laissent tomber
Here is a strange and bitter cry
Voici un cri étrange et amer





Writer(s): Allan Lewis

Billie Holiday - The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959
Album
The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959
date of release
01-02-1993

1 Tenderly
2 Autumn In New York
3 Love For Sale
4 If The Moon Turns Green
5 Discussion; Jeepers Creepers (Rehearsal)
6 Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It (Rehearsal)
7 Discussion; I Don't Want to Cry Anymore (Rehearsal)
8 Discussion (Rehearsal)
9 Discussion; Moonlight In Vermont (Rehearsal)
10 I Thought About You
11 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
12 Easy to Love
13 I Only Have Eyes For You
14 Love Me or Leave Me
15 You Turned the Tables On Me
16 Ain't Misbehavin'
17 Always
18 These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
19 How Deep Is The Ocean?
20 I Can't Face The Music
21 Everything Happens to Me
22 You Go to My Head
23 My Man
24 Say It Isn't So (1955 Version)
25 I Cried for You (1954 Studio)
26 Billie's Blues - Live (1954/Cologne)
27 Billie's Blues (Live 1946 Carnegie Hall)
28 I Don't Want to Cry Anymore (Rehearsal #2)
29 I Don't Want to Cry Anymore (Rehearsal #1)
30 I Don't Want to Cry Anymore (1955 Version #1)
31 He's Funny That Way (1952 Version)
32 He's Funny That Way (Live 1946 Shrine Auditorium)
33 Remember
34 You're Driving Me Crazy
35 Body and Soul (Live 1945 Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles)
36 All of Me (Live 1946 Carnegie Hall)
37 The Man I Love (Live 1946 Carnegie Hall)
38 Strange Fruit (Live 1945 Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles)
39 Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You? (Live 1946 Carnegie Hall)
40 There Is No Greater Love (Live (1947/Carnegie Hall))
41 I Cried for You (Live 1946 Carnegie Hall)
42 I Cover the Waterfront (Live 1947 Carnegie Hall)
43 Nice Work If You Can Get It (Rehearsal)
44 All Of Me - Live (1954/Cologne)
45 Blue Moon - Live (1954/Cologne)
46 He's Funny That Way (Live 1946 Carnegie Hal)
47 Fine and Mellow (Live 1946 Carnegie Hal)
48 I Cover The Waterfront - Live (1954/Cologne)
49 I Cried For You - Live (1954/Cologne)
50 Lover, Come Back To Me - Live (1954/Cologne)
51 My Man - Live (1954/Cologne)
52 Travelin' Light (Live 1946 Shrine Auditorium)
53 What A Little Moonlight Can Do - Live (1954/Cologne)
54 Them There Eyes (Live 1954 Cologne)
55 You Better Go Now (Live 1947 Carnegie Hall)
56 Prelude to a Kiss (Rehearsal)
57 Stormy Blues
58 Softly
59 Too Marvelous For Words
60 P.S. I Love You (1954 Version)
61 East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)
62 Solitude (1952 Version)
63 Yesterdays (1952 Version)
64 Moonglow
65 Embraceable You (1957 Version)
66 Body and Soul (1957 Studio)
67 I Wished On the Moon (1957)
68 A Fine Romance (Master Take)
69 Nice Work If You Can Get It (1955 Version)
70 Gone With the Wind (Rehearsal)
71 I Cover the Waterfront (Live 1956 Carnegie Hall)
72 I Cried for You (Live 1956 Carnegie Hall)
73 I'll Be Seeing You (Live 1956 Carnegie Hall)
74 My Man (Live 1956 Carnegie Hall)
75 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Live 1956 Carnegie Hall)
76 Yesterdays (Live 1956 Carnegie Hall)
77 Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Live 1956 Carnegie Hall)
78 Body and Soul (Live 1956 Carnegie Hall)
79 MC and Leonard Feather Announcements (Live 1954 Cologne)
80 Jeepers Creepers (Rehearsal #2)
81 Jeepers Creepers (Rehearsal #1)
82 I Must Have That Man! (1955 Rehearsal)
83 Mandy Is Two (Rehearsal)
84 Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me (1955 Version)
85 I Wished On the Moon (1955 Version)
86 Willow Weep for Me (1954 Studio)
87 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Rehearsal #1)
88 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Rehearsal #2)
89 Misery (1955 Rehearsal)
90 I Won't Believe It (Rehearsal)
91 They Say (Rehearsal)
92 It's Too Hot for Words (Rehearsal)
93 The Nearness of You (Rehearsal)
94 Just Friends (Rehearsal)
95 I'm Walkin' Through Heaven With You (Rehearsal)
96 (I Don't Stand A) Ghost of a Chance (Rehearsal)
97 A Sunbonnet Blue (Rehearsal)
98 I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Rehearsal)
99 The Mood That I'm In (Rehearsal)
100 It Had to Be You (Rehearsal)
101 When You Are Away, Dear (Rehearsal)
102 Everything Happens to Me (Rehearsal #2)
103 Everything Happens to Me (Rehearsal #1)
104 Moonlight In Vermont (Rehearsal)
105 Restless (Rehearsal)
106 What a Little Moonlight Can Do (1954 Studio)
107 Blue Moon (1952 Version)
108 Everything I Have Is Yours (1952 Version)
109 Stormy Weather (1952 Version)
110 Lover, Come Back to Me (1952 Version)
111 Autumn In New York (Rare Take/78 Version)
112 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (1957 Version)
113 Moonlight In Vermont (1957 Version)
114 It Had to Be You (1955 Version)
115 No Good Man (1956 Version)
116 Everything I Have Is Yours (1955 Version)
117 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (1955 Version)
118 Gone With the Wind (1955 Version)
119 When Your Lover Has Gone (1955 Version #2)
120 (I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance With You (1955 Version)
121 Norman Granz Announcement (Live 1947 Carnegie Hall)

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