Lest We Forget: The Shocking Story of an Approved Killing in Mississippi

[Modem Butterfly]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/sfeature/sf_look_confession.html

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood at the leaves, blood at the root
Black body swaying in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit for the poplar tree

Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.