Strange Fruit AaRON (words & music Abel Meeropol) Standard tuning: EADGBE (Piano arranged for guitar) [Bm] Southern trees[A] [G] Bearing strang[F#]e fruit [Bm] Blood on the leaves[A][G] And blood at the [F#]root [Em] Black bodies swinging in the southern bree[Bm]ze[A] [G]Strange fruit hanging[F#] from the po[Bm]plar trees[A][G][F#] [Em] Pastoral scene [Bm]of the gallow [A]south[G][F#] [Em] And the bulging eyes[E] and the twisted mouth [Bm] The scent [A]of magnolia[G] sweet and [F#]fresh (guitaretab.com)