Strange Fruit

"Southern trees bear a 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"

Obs.: Foi composta como um poema, escrito por Abel Meeropol e imortalizada na voz da incrível Billie Holiday. Condenando o racismo americano, especialmente o linchamento de afro-americanos que ocorreu principalmente no Sul dos Estados Unidos mas também aconteceu em outras regiões do país.

Referencias bibliográficas:

(https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit)

Clarke, Donald: Billie Holiday. Wishing on the Moon. München, Piper 1995. ISBN 3-492-03756-9

Davis, Angela: Blues Legacies and Black Feminism. Diverse Ausgaben, z. B. Vintage Books 1999 ISBN 0-679-77126-3

Margolick, David and Hilton Als: Strange Fruit. Billie Holiday, Café Society and an Early Cry for Civil Rights. Running Press. ISBN 0-7624-0677-1 (hardcover, 2000); Margolick, David and Hilton Als: Strange Fruit. The Biography of a Song., Ecco. ISBN 0-06-095956-8 (paperback, 2001)

Holiday, Billie (with William Dufty): Lady Sings the Blues (autobiography) Edition Nautilus, 1992. ISBN 3-89401-110-6

Shulman, Robert: Rosenberg Sons Say Father Was Guilty, Mother Was Framed. Washington Post, September 23, 2008.