Monday, August 17, 2009

Strange Fruit




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.

(con esto solo, se gano un lugar en nuestro Hall of The Fame)

4 comments:

La Fiera said...

Para mi es la mejor de las tres grandes negras del jazz. Es como Waits con pollera.

El guardian de la maldita ota said...

La negra sabia de que se trataba...
Toda una Pescadora.

Sancho said...

Es un desparramo de elegancia, brutal visceralidad, negrura y swing.

Maro said...

Desde mi punto de vista, la mejor voz femenina del jazz.
Me, myself, and I.