"STRANGE FRUIT" performed by Billie Holiday
78 RPM Single b/w Fine and Mellow
Year: 1939
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98CxkS0vzB8
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Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southe...
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