(l.allen)
Originally performed by billie holiday. jeff performed it live on air at kcrw's man in the moon, on january 1994.
Southern trees bear 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 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.

• Alive
• Angel Mine
• Auld Lang Syne
• Be My Husband
• Calling You
• Catnip Dream
• Curtains
• Despite The Tears
• Dido's Lament
• Dink's Song
• Everyday People
• Faith Salons
• Farewell Angelina
• Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
• I Against I
• I Know It's Over
• I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain
• I Shall Be Released
• I Want Someone Badly
• If You See Her, Say Hello
• Jolly Street
• Just Like a Woman
• Kangaroo
• Kick Out The Jams
• Killing Time
• Lost Highway
• Madame George
• Mama, You've Been on My Mind
• Medley: Hallelujah / Last Month of The Year
• People's Parties
• Strange Fruit
• Sweet Thing
• That's All I Ask
• The Boy With The Thorn in His Side
• The Other Woman
• Thief Without The Take
• Thousand Fold
• Ulalume
• Wild is The Wind
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken