Song Project

Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday / Left Behind - Spring Awakening

 Southern trees bear a 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.

- Originally performed in a nightclub in New

York called Cafe Society in early 1939
- At this time protest music was something
that was practically unknown
- The first significant protest in words and
music, the first unmuted cry against
racism. ~ Leonard Feather

-- Many consider this song the beginning of

the civil rights movement
- Named on of the Ten Songs That Actually
Changed the World by Q a British magazine
- Extremely Controversial for its time,
forcing people to face the truth of their
actions, as well as being extremely
dangerous for her to perform.

Left Behind

You fold his hands and smooth his tie

You gently lift his chin
Were you really so blind
And unkind to him?
Can't help the itch to touch, to kiss
To hold him once again
Now to close his eyes
Never open them,

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