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




Strange Fruit (Live) (Live (1945/Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles))
Fruit étrange (Live) (Live (1945/Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles))
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Les arbres du Sud portent un fruit étrange
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Du sang sur les feuilles et du sang à la racine
Black bodies swingin′ in the Southern breeze
Des corps noirs balançant dans la brise du Sud
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees
Des fruits étranges pendent des peupliers
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
Scène pastorale du Sud galant
The bulgin′ eyes and the twisted mouth
Les yeux exorbités et la bouche tordue
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
L'odeur des magnolias, douce et fraîche
Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh
Puis l'odeur soudaine de la chair brûlée
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
Voici un fruit pour que les corbeaux le cueillent
For the rain to gather
Pour que la pluie le recueille
For the wind to suck
Pour que le vent le suce
For the sun to rot
Pour que le soleil le fasse pourrir
For the tree to drop
Pour que l'arbre le laisse tomber
Here is a strange and bitter crop
Voici une récolte étrange et amère





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
08-02-1993

1 Body and Soul (Live) (Live (1945/Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles))
2 Prelude to a Kiss (Rehearsal)
3 Everything Happens to Me
4 Nice Work If You Can Get It (Rehearsal)
5 Ain't Misbehavin'
6 Always
7 I Wished on the Moon (1955)
8 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
9 I Thought About You
10 Stormy Blues
11 Autumn In New York
12 Love Me or Leave Me
13 Softly
14 Too Marvelous For Words
15 Gone With the Wind (Rehearsal)
16 I Don't Want to Cry Anymore (Rehearsal #2)
17 Remember
18 I Cried for You (1954 Studio)
19 If The Moon Turns Green
20 I Don't Want to Cry Anymore (Rehearsal #1)
21 Tenderly
22 Lover, Come Back to Me (Live) (Live (1954/Cologne))
23 These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
24 Moonglow
25 My Man
26 Easy to Love
27 You Turned the Tables On Me
28 Stormy Weather (1952)
29 How Deep Is The Ocean?
30 You Go to My Head
31 I Can't Face The Music
32 I Cover the Waterfront (Live) (Live (1954/Cologne))
33 What a Little Moonlight Can Do (Live) (Live (1954/Cologne))
34 East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)
35 I Cried for You (Live) (Live (1954/Cologne))
36 Them There Eyes (Live) (Live (1954/Cologne))
37 I Cover the Waterfront (Live) (Live (1947/Carnegie Hall))
38 My Man (Live) (Live (1954/Cologne))
39 All of Me (Live) (Live (1954/Cologne))
40 Blue Moon (Live) (Live (1954/Cologne))
41 Love For Sale
42 Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) [Live] (Live (1954/Cologne))
43 He's Funny That Way (Live) (Live (1946/Shrine Auditorium))
44 Travelin' Light (Live) (Live (1946/Shrine Auditorium))
45 Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) [Live] (Live (1946/Carnegie Hall))
46 All of Me (Live) (Live (1946/Carnegie Hall))
47 Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You? (Live) (Live (1946/Carnegie Hall))
48 The Man I Love (Live) (Live (1946/Carnegie Hall))
49 He's Funny That Way (Live) (Live (1946/Carnegie Hall))
50 Fine and Mellow (Live) (Live (1946/Carnegie Hall))
51 I Cried for You (Live) (Live (1946/Carnegie Hall))
52 Strange Fruit (Live) (Live (1945/Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles))
53 I Only Have Eyes For You
54 There Is No Greater Love (Live) (Live (1947/Carnegie Hall))
55 You're Driving Me Crazy (Live) (Live (1947/Carnegie Hall))
56 You Better Go Now (Live) (Live (1947/Carnegie Hall))
57 God Bless the Child (1956)
58 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (1957)
59 Lover, Come Back to Me (1952)
60 Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me (1956)
61 Jeepers Creepers (Rehearsal #2)
62 Jeepers Creepers (Rehearsal #1)
63 I Must Have That Man! (1955 Rehearsal)
64 Mandy Is Two (Rehearsal)
65 Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me (1955)
66 Say It Isn't So (1955)
67 Willow Weep for Me (1954 Studio)
68 P.S. I Love You (1954)
69 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Rehearsal #1)
70 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Rehearsal #2)
71 I Won't Believe It (Rehearsal)
72 They Say (Rehearsal)
73 It's Too Hot for Words (Rehearsal)
74 The Nearness of You (Rehearsal)
75 Just Friends (Rehearsal)
76 I'm Walkin' Through Heaven With You (Rehearsal)
77 (I Don't Stand A) Ghost of a Chance (Rehearsal)
78 A Sunbonnet Blue (Rehearsal)
79 I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Rehearsal)
80 The Mood That I'm In (Rehearsal)
81 When You Are Away, Dear (Rehearsal)
82 Everything Happens to Me (Rehearsal #2)
83 Everything Happens to Me (Rehearsal #1)
84 Moonlight In Vermont (Rehearsal)
85 Restless (Rehearsal)
86 Misery (1955 Rehearsal)
87 It Had to Be You (Rehearsal)
88 I Don't Want to Cry Anymore (1955 #1)
89 What a Little Moonlight Can Do (1954 Studio)
90 Blue Moon (1952)
91 Solitude (1952)
92 Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)
93 MC and Leonard Feather Announcements (Live) (Live (1954/Cologne))
94 Yesterdays (1952)
95 Autumn In New York (Rare Take/78 Version)
96 He's Funny That Way (1952)
97 Norman Granz Announcement (Live) (Live (1947/Carnegie Hall))

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