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  1. #BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit

    Not sure why this came to my head this am, but I need to post it to shake it out of my mind. Heart-wrenching

    youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChX

  2. #BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit

    Not sure why this came to my head this am, but I need to post it to shake it out of my mind. Heart-wrenching

    youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChX

  3. new track #StrangeFruit uploaded. this will be on the forthcoming album, Meditation Sounds

    soundcloud.com/pumiquxt/strang

  4. On this day in 1959 Billie Holiday took leave of this earthly burden and left her mortal coil behind. On July 15, she received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church and died two days later, at the age of 44, on July 17, 1959, at 3:10 a.m., of pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver.
    #BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit

  5. CW: Strange Fruit recorded by Billie Holiday (about the lynching days) written by Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allan)...

    @[email protected] A nicely sung song here and bit of haunting lyrics about the lynching days:

    iv.melmac.space/watch?v=-DGY9H

    (non-google Invidious YouTube link)

    █Lyrics to Strange Fruit recorded by Billie Holiday
    (written by Abel Meeropol under his pseudonym Lewis Allan)

    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

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