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Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday - Guitar Chords
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Am6 Bm7-5 E7
Am6 Bm7-5 E7-5
Am6 F7 E7-9
Southern trees bear a stra-ange fru-it
Am6 Am9 F7 E7-9
Blood on the leaves and blood at the roo-oot
Dm7 Dm6 Dm7 E
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Am Am9 Am Dm Am
Strange fruit hanging from the pop lar trees
Am6 Bm7-5 E7
Am6 Bm7-5 E7-9
Am Dm Dm6 Am
Pastoral scene of the gallant sou-outh
Am F9-5 Dm7 E7
The bulging eyes and the twisted mou-outh
Am G F9 E9
Scent of mag-nolias, swee-eet and fre-esh
Am Dm7 F9 E
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
[Verse 3]
Am F7 E
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
Dm7 Dm6 F E
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
Am Am/G# Am/G F9 E7-9
For the sun to rot, for the tree to dro o-op
Am Am/G# Am/G F9 E7-9 Am Am(maj7)
Here is a stra -ange and bitter cro -o-o-o -op
We also have 31 songs by Billie Holiday
- Aint Misbehavin
- All Of Me
- Am I Blue
- Baby I Dont Cry Over You
- Blue Moon
- Body And Soul
- Crazy He Calls Me
- Do Your Duty
- Dont Explain
- Easy Living
- Fine And Mellow
- Gloomy Sunday
- God Bless The Child
- Good Morning Heartache
- Guilty
- Hes Funny That Way
- I Must Have That Man
- Ill Be Seeing You
- Ill Look Around
- It Had To Be You
- Lover Man
- No Regrets
- Pennies From Heaven
- Stormy Weather
- Strange Fruit
- That Ole Devil Called Love
- The Man I Love
- Them There Eyes
- Weep No More
- Without Your Love
- You Dont Know What Love Is
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