Name: Strange Fruit
Duration: P00H02M45S
Description: Originally written by communist party member Abel Meeropol and made famous by Billie Holliday and Nina Simone, this is the anti-lynching classic from the 1930s, and this is probably the heaviest version available.

Strange Fruit

from The Red Terror by Ealdfeond

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Originally written by communist party member Abel Meeropol and made famous by Billie Holliday and Nina Simone, this is the anti-lynching classic from the 1930s, and this is probably the heaviest version available.

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Southern trees bear a 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 a 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

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from The Red Terror, released July 5, 2021
Abel Meeropol

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Ealdfeond England, UK

Coming from the West country and Inspired by metal coming from the Viking lands and the economics of Karl Marx and politics of Chomsky, Blum, Nye Bevan, David Harvey, and true freedom, this is a project 30 years in the making and now ekeing its way into the world. There from the eyes of Lucifer and until the eyes of justice open. Fuck the Conservatives and get the Morning Star. ... more

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