Strange Fruit

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Southern trees bear a strange fruit
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Blood on the leaves and blood at the
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 root
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Black bodies swinging in the 
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southern breeze
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Strange fruit hanging from the 
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poplar trees
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Pastoral scene of the gallant    
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south
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The bulging eyes and the twisted 
mouth
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Smell of magnolia,          
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sweet and fresh
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Then the sudden smell of burning 
flesh
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Here is the fruit for the 
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crows to pluck
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For the rain to gather, for the 
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wind to suck
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For   the sun to rot, for the
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 tree  to drop
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Here is a strange  and    
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bitter     crop