Chords for Strange Fruit

_ _ Southern trees, [A] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ bearing [F#] strange fruit
_ _ _ [B] _ _ Blood at the [A] leaves, _ _ _ [G] _ and blood at the [F#] root
_ _ _ [Em] Black bodies swinging in the [B] southern breeze
_ _ _ [A] _
Strange [G] fruit, _ hanging [F#] from _ [B] the purple trees
_ _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ Pastoral scene _ _
[B] _ of [F#m] the garland south
_ [G] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] And the bulging eyes, _ _ [Em] _
_ [B] _ [E] and the twisted [Em] mouth _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ Scent of [A] magnolia, _ _ [G] sweet [F#] and fresh
_ _ [Em] And the southern smell _ [B] of _ [A] flame _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
Here _ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ is a fruit [A] for _
_ [G] _ the [F#] crows to pluck _
_ _ [E] For [Em] the rain to gather, _ _ for the wind to suck
For [Em] the sun to rot, for the trees _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ to [F#] rot
_ _ [B] _
_ Here is [F#m] a strange [G] _ _
_ and _ [F#] bitter crop
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _