Lyrics and translation Nina Simone - Strange Fruit
Southern
trees
Les
arbres
du
Sud
Barren
strange
fruit
Fruit
étrange
et
stérile
Blood
on
the
leaves
Du
sang
sur
les
feuilles
And
blood
at
the
roots
Et
du
sang
aux
racines
Black
bodies
Corps
noirs
Swinging
in
the
southern
breeze
Balancés
par
la
brise
du
Sud
Strange
fruit
hangin'
Fruits
étranges
pendus
From
the
poplar
trees
Aux
peupliers
Pastoral
scene
Scène
pastorale
Of
the
gallant
south
Du
Sud
galant
Them
big
bulging
eyes
Ces
grands
yeux
exorbités
And
the
twisted
mouth
Et
la
bouche
tordue
Scent
of
magnolia
Senteur
de
magnolia
Clean
and
fresh
Pure
et
fraîche
Then
the
sudden
smell
Puis
l'odeur
soudaine
Of
burnin'
flesh
De
chair
brûlée
Here
is
a
fruit
Voici
un
fruit
For
the
crows
to
pluck
Pour
les
corbeaux
de
cueillir
For
the
rain
to
gather
Pour
la
pluie
de
recueillir
For
the
wind
to
suck
Pour
le
vent
de
sucer
For
the
sun
to
rot
Pour
le
soleil
de
faire
pourrir
For
the
leaves
to
drop
Pour
les
feuilles
de
tomber
Here
is
Voici
Strange
and
bitter
crop
Une
récolte
étrange
et
amère
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4 Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)
5 Strange Fruit (Interview)
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19 To Be Young Gifted and Black (Interview)
2 To Be Young, Gifted And Black - 2005 remix
3 Strange Fruit
4 Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)
5 Strange Fruit (Interview)
6 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
7 Nobody
8 Nobody (Interview)
9 Four Women
10 Four Women (Interview)
11 Backlash Blues
12 Backlash Blues (Interview)
13 Old Jim Crow
14 Old Jim Crow (Interview)
15 Mississippi Goddamn
16 By Any Means Necessary (Interview)
17 Definition of an Artist
18 Mississippi Goddamn (Interview)
19 To Be Young Gifted and Black (Interview)
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