Lyrics by Strange Fruit
Do you love Strange Fruit's songs? Here you'll find the lyrics to Strange Fruit's songs so you can sing them at the top of your lungs, make your own versions, or simply understand them properly.
We have compiled all the lyrics of Strange Fruit's songs we could find so that those who, like you, are looking for songs by Strange Fruit, find them all in one place.
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- The Flame Still Burns
- A Woman Like That
- All Over The World
- Bird On a Wire
- Black Moon
- Dangerous Things
- Dirty town
- Live for Today
- Scream Freedom
- Stealin
- What Might Have Been
"Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the Southern United States at the turn of the 20th century and the great majority of victims were black. The song has been called "a declaration" and "the beginning of the civil rights movement". Meeropol set his lyrics to music with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan and performed it as a protest song in New York City venues in the late 1930s, including Madison Square Garden. Holiday's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978. It was also included in the "Songs of the Century" list of the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2002, "Strange Fruit" was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
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