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Strange fruits

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samedi 18 juin 2005 [n° 141]

Billie Holliday

Southern trees bear 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 magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

music and lyrics by Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol), ©1940

The text first appeared as a poem, “Bitter Fruit” in a 1937 issue of New York Teacher. Meeropol once explained, “I wrote Strange Fruit because I hate lynching, and I hate injustice, and I hate the people who perpetuate it.”

What’s Really Going On (Strange Fruit) Dwayne Wiggins Eyes Never Lie, ©2000 – Written by Dwane Wiggins, Maurice Pearl & Lewis Allan – Contains interpolations from “Strange Fruit”, written by Lewis Allan

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via Embruns : Lynch mobs 17 juin 2005

Addendum 15 Juillet 2005

‘A few seconds more and the negress will sing. It seems inevitable, so strong is the necessity of this music: nothing can interrupt it, nothing which comes from this time in which the world has fallen; it will stop of itself, as if by order. If I love this beautiful voice it is especially because of that: it is neither for its fullness nor its sadness, rather because it is the event for which so many notes have been preparing, from so far away, dying that it might be born.’

La Nausée, pp.36-37; n, p.34
Jean-Paul Sartre

quoted from “Jean-Paul Sartre – philosophy in the world”
by Ronald Aronson
‘Is art the answser ? La Nausée’

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