Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit (Guitar Intro)

Capo 3
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

Am6 Bm7-5 E7 Am6 Bm7-5 E7-5 [Verse 1]
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                    Dm6/A          Am   Dm  Am
Strange fruit hanging       from the pop  lar trees
Am6 Bm7-5 E7 Am6 Bm7-5 E7-9 [Bridge]
Am       Dm           Dm6         Am
Pastoral scene of the gallant sou-outh

Am9            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 2]
Am                      F13      E7
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