Strange Fruit

1939 song recorded by Billie Holiday

"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 African Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees.

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