"The trees of the South bear a strange fruit

Blood on the leaves and blood at the roots

Black bodies sway in the southern breeze

A strange fruit hanging from the cottonwood trees.

Pastoral scene of the brave South

Bulging eyes and twisted mouths

Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh

In the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is the fruit that the crows pick

That the rain gathers

that the wind sucks

That the sun makes rot, that the trees let fall

Here is a strange and bitter harvest."

(The piece was a powerful denunciation against the lynching of black people in the southern States, as well as one of the earliest expressions of the civil rights movement.
The expression "Strange Fruit" later became a symbol standing for "lynching."
The "strange fruit" mentioned is the body of a black person hanging from a tree.
The symbolic and emotional power of the text came from the contrast between the evocative image of a rural and conservative South and the sad and brutal reality of racism.)

Katey Sagal ft. Blake Mills - Strange Fruit - Sons of Anarchy S04E07 /w lyrics

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