Buckley, Jeff - Strange Fruit Lyrics






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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  1. E.... g....

    Billie would have LOVED his version - Both consummate musicians - tortured souls...they lived the blues, singing it so authentic and real...….

  2. E.... V....

    Jeff...

  3. j.... ....

    Remember, when Jeff went to GIT he won best guitarist in the class award. I asked him if he learned anything there and he said no. He was better at 14 than I'll ever be.

  4. S.... C....

    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

  5. M.... G....

    Jeff's guitar playing is kinda like his singing in some ways I noticed. Some pretty strong vibrato as well as really wide interval leaps between certain notes as well as a certain level of dynamic in the volume of certain phrases. Dude was oozing musicianship

  6. P.... M....

    80 years after the first release of the song, here is a new version of “Strange Fruit(s)” as a call to fight for human rights and against racism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNmSTPgClIg

  7. i.... ....

    His playing is giving me serious Roy Buchanan vibes

  8. R.... E....

    💔💔💔💔💔💔

  9. M.... R....

    Une chanson inoubliable, comme une déchirure, par un interprète exceptionnel sur le plan musical et vocal. Repose en paix parmi les esprits qui font honneur à l'humanité et dont on espère qu'ils viennent nous inspirer dans nos temps tourmentés.

  10. B.... C....

    That Bluesy guitar and Jeff's voice.. Heaven!! If anyone wants I made a cover:https://youtu.be/nRpRghriMec

  11. n.... ....

    Aquest home és molt bo, i això és indiscutible, però dir que "perhaps surpasses the original" em sembla passar-se uns quants pobles. La Billie Holyday la canta millor, molt millor.

  12. F.... E....

    Sowas von herzereissend

  13. P.... W....

    Perfection

  14. V.... B....

    Sorry but someone here is miseading u guys, Billie holiday wrote it as a poem, she didn't want to sing it but the record company forced her, and this is is the best cover of it. Better than Nina simones.. omg his voice and the pain. Not to mention the guitar playing.

    V.... B....

    hi- Strange Fruit was a poem but written by Abel Meeropol- a New Yorker of Russian Jewish decent, an actor and songwriter- look him up on Wiki- His wife, Laura Duncan was the first to sing it as a protest song at NYC venues. At one of those venues Billie Holidays show producer found that song for her. AND Billie Holiday DID want to sing and release it but her record company (Columbia / CBS) was fearful of the public outcry. Columbia records would NOT allow her to record it but did give her a short contract release so she could record it on a smaller jazz label called Commodore-- peace

  15. D.... g....

    Sempre grandissimo

  16. A.... H....

    How did Jeff Buckley die??

    A.... H....

    hhim and his roadie were trying to find the studio in nashville, and couldnt find it s, hisband was on their way down by plane, and he felt like chillin by the river, listen to music and going for a swim in the mississippi river while waiting for them. there was led zep playing on the radio with his roadie on shore, he had his clothes and shoes on, and he got pulled under by the ginormous waves of a passing steamboat i think it was a steamboat not sure. he was missing for aa week or so :( :( :( :(

  17. A.... B....

    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 a 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.

  18. B.... B....

    Jeff Buckley May you RIP

  19. J.... P....

    If your upset about his race, stop yourself right there for a moment. He's mixed. His mother is of mixed panamanian decent. So stop getting upset because he looks white and is singing a poem that carries this much weight. Second, regardless of his race, he did a beautiful job as anartist with this poem and it does noone any good to get mad at the dead anyways. P.S. My children and I are mixed as well and I'm dreading the days when I have to explain to my little girl and 2 boys that the country they live in and love hates them and is teaching everyone in schools to hate them because their skin color and features are white.

  20. R.... M....

    También te atreviste con esta canción, Jeff.Sabias sobradamente,que podías. Y aquí está. ...una maravilla con tu prodigiosa voz . Qué pena que te fuiste tan pronto.

  21. M.... ....

    Τhis is not the song as written for Billy Holiday which many other people have honored with their interpretations. This is the POEM "Strange fruit", set to different music. Great, all the same.

  22. J.... M....

    Sure, this version is great. Buckley was amazingly talented. I don't buy it, though. He took possession without respect. Maybe he wanted to show respect in a way, but he just couldn't. Hubris in the face of something bigger than he understood. That's how he died, too.

  23. j.... c....

    "remember, a white man wrote this! *therefore the white man who wrote it has no understanding of what the pain is like*!"
    so because I'm white, I'm not allowed to see the facts that our country is really a hypocritical place for opening its arms while the people crush the minority simply because they're different?






    starting to think it's not just the hypocritical racists that keep this ongoing issue relevant.

  24. d.... ....

    he's known for vocals but man he could play the geetar like a mutha fuckin riot

  25. A.... C....

    I wish there was a word for situations and pieces of art and history like this. Maybe there is. Like something so ugly and devastating and unnecessary, but it happened and will always have happened and cannot be forgotten. What's that word?!

  26. B.... D....

    One of my favourite Jeff covers. So captivating...

  27. m.... B....

    Cette très belle version de Jeff Buckley est étudiée avec mes élèves. Elle sera supprimée de la playlist après son écoute en classe!

  28. T.... L....

    A voice like that and he plays guitar like this! I'd be happy with either

  29. O.... �....

    I''m sorry but this is terrible

  30. G.... M....

    Like page and plant in one.

    G.... M....

    still absolutely sublime

  31. L.... B....

    i tell you this, this is one of the best solo improvisation you ll ever heard on guitar so much feeling on it that's just oustanding this guy was a gifted guitar player

  32. E.... ....

    Jeff Buckley, Morrisson, Camaron de la Isla, Brel, Bertrand Cantat, Billie Holiday, et quelques autres. Des anges venus réenchanter la vie...

  33. F.... V....

    it aint history if it's still happening. SHAME.

  34. S.... B....

    Very few guitarists have the voice, taste in good music, and the hands to be masters. This man had it!

  35. S.... ....

    Jeff Buckley died of AIDS that he got from the Mississippi River.

    S.... ....

    you're an idiot

    S.... ....

    No....he’s an asshole idiot! WTF man?

  36. J.... H....

    personally my favourite cover of this song has always been the cover by Nina Simone, but this is rather good.

  37. k.... ....

    clearly he is coming from a genuine place, and the fact someone can discover this song and do research on the origins of everything is a huge part of music and art in general. Im sure plenty of people didnt know about this song before kanye sampled the original version. it is silly to be upset over genuine tributes to spread the word of the original piece of music.

  38. n.... ....

    That's just blues mastery on a scale I wasn't previously aware of... :0

  39. s.... ....

    Is Jeff playing guitar here?

    s.... ....

    slimturnpike YES

  40. g.... ....

    Hell No! No white person should NEVER sing this song, period!

    g.... ....

    well considering a white person wrote the song i'm pretty sure it's fine. true music is not bound by racs

    g.... ....

    You sure about that?? Lol

    g.... ....

    Black people arent the only race to have gone through slavery or atrocities

    g.... ....

    @Ios5513 So, would you say we each should only listen to music written, and played by our own ethnic?

    g.... ....

    Unbiasedlistener that's what the op basically said. Cause she's a racist idiot.

  41. m.... c....

    I can't imagine a world where Jeff Buckley didn't exist, where his voice didn't add to my musical experience, where his expression was anything but genuine and necessary. He isn't co-opting the pain conveyed in this song for his own benefit, he is expressing the truth of the song in repsect of and regard for that pain. I doubt Billie or Nina would disagree.

  42. V.... S....

    Love his playing but I don't appreciate his vocals like everyone else does

    V.... S....

    Listen to Christi corpus carol, and didos lament by Jeff

  43. H.... G....

    Mississippi god damn...... I knew Jeff was deep but ...... Damn. He makes me feel the pain of black people with this rendition of this song. Amazing.

  44. R.... W....

    king jeff

  45. m.... b....

    frankly it doesn't matter which race wrote the song. black or white, the message stands the same. now, i can understand how people may find it hard to enjoy this song sung by a white man, and personally i believe it's up to the listener to decide whether the context fits with the music. but i do feel like i should say, maybe try and listen to this not as a song sung by jeff, or billie, but just a song. see if you like it. if you don't, you don't.

  46. A.... H....

    Damn, Jeff's guitar playing does not get enough credit.

    A.... H....

    Adrian Hole no shit. He was a great guitar player. I have never heard him do stuff like he did in the intro of this song though.

    A.... H....

    True to all these comments. Didn’t realise he had those blues licks in his lockers. Amazing.

    A.... H....

    Incidentally, he's playing a telly here despite the picture

    A.... H....

    Jimmy Page was a huge fan of Jeff's guitar playing. He was surprised with the really weird and demanding licks he was using . If you also add the fact that he was singing on top....yeah...one of a kind talent.

    A.... H....

    Jimmy Page noticed...especially his tasteful tuning.

  47. M.... C....

    I like Jeff's rendition. Strange Fruit is not an easy song to attempt you must capture the macabre, shameful, painful message that is apart of our ugly American history and i feel he achieved it.

    M.... C....

    Monica Cole ya if any white musician did the song honor it would have to be this.

  48. D.... M....

    amazing

  49. C.... ....

    THIS IS AMAZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNG!

  50. H.... H....

    The photograph that inspired Abel Meeropol to write the poem that this song was based on, was one of the most gut wrenching things anyone with an ounce of compassion has ever seen. That photograph was sadly just the tiniest fraction of a peoples suffering, all because of their skin colour. So disheartening :'(

    H.... H....

    it was beyond skin color tho. that terrorism and public execution served a greater purpose of oppression & subjugation

    H.... H....

    @***** Aye, but let's not make false-equivalences for the sake of the big picture - they can both exist together.

  51. M.... A....

    De los árboles del sur cuelga una fruta extraña.... sangre en las hojas y sangre en la raíz. Cuerpos negros balanceándose en la brisa sureña... Extraños frutos penden de los álamos... Escena pastoril del valiente sur: Los ojos hinchados y la boca retorcida, esencia de magnolias, dulce y fresco... Y el súbito olor a carne ardiendo... Aquí está el fruto para que lo arranquen los cuervos,
    Para que lo tome la lluvia,
    Para que lo aspire el viento,
    Para que lo pudra el sol,
    Para que lo dejen caer los árboles... Esta sigue siendo una extraña y amarga cosecha.

  52. l.... ....

    No one can do it better than Billie.

    l.... ....

    loveharrydaily did Jeff ever say his version was better than billies

  53. R.... E....

    Singing starts at 3:16 fyi

    R.... E....

    Skipperino the jamerino

    R.... E....

    mehdinadif Ayyyy hearthstone

    R.... E....

    Ryan Edwards
    You may as well have said “I don’t know about, nor do I appreciate music, pieces of music, or the construction of a song.

    Silly boy.

  54. D.... A....

    Sorry am I missing something here? Just listen to the song and if u don't like this version there are plenty other ones on youtube: India Arie, Diana Ross, Jose James, Angie Stone, you name it.... But stop with this endless EMPTY debate PLEASE

    D.... A....

    +D-WA Njole vvvvvvv r u d bag

    D.... A....

    yeah, I'm not too keen on this (there are interesting parts tho)...

    this song has a lot of power tho. so u can expect the empty/cathartic debate.

    this is actually the first time I've heard it

  55. a.... b....

    Been on this planet a long time, and didn't even know this man for most of that time, but, have to say, he's hands down my favourite artist!

  56. M.... M....

    R.I.P jeff

  57. a.... m....

    The way he cries out in this song is touching and gives me gooses bumps, what a great job he does singing this song.

  58. c.... ....

    Black singers cover Buckley songs, geeze can't one thing be color blind ? Please leave music be, it's the one thing we all can share .

    c.... ....

    preach it 👌

    c.... ....

    the lyrics of this song was written by Abel Meeropol a Jewish radical from the Bronx. A poet and school teacher, he and his wife adopted the Rosenbergs' children after they were executed by the US government. I probably wouldn't sing this song but I appreciate it, what's silly is to say "it surpasses the original" that's just silly. a song like this can't be quantified or set against others.

    c.... ....

    ***** the lyrics is by Billie Holiday bitch

    c.... ....

    Marc Jefferson, Abel Meerpool did write the song...no need for calling people names, especially when you are wrong.

    c.... ....

    People who say they don't see color are < literally everything. Color exists , and to say you don't see it means that you're choosing to be blind to the message of this song and to the plight of every brown, black, and/or non white person that has to deal with oppression.

  59. m.... p....

    sublime.....

    m.... p....

    +max paterni What I Got...

  60. M.... ....

    Get a grip you trolls. Jeff was amazing. And all he did by singing this was make the reality of this song real to people who never heard the song, or never would have gotten the chance to. I live on "Poplar" street in Memphis, and I am always reminded by this song lyrics and jeff's version, never forgetting why it was written. His cover recognizes and memorializes the atrocities of all that has happened here in the south.

    M.... ....

    blues is blues. doesn't matter who did it first, but this guy didn't butcher it. he paid homage.

    M.... ....

    I live near Fraser in Memphis, but people don’t take my plea for safer neighborhoods seriously because I’m asian. They just don’t expect me to be living in such an area. I just want to help the people around me because our city won’t listen to them.

  61. G.... Z....

    my fav.

  62. w.... ....

    Remember that this song was actually written by a... white man !

  63. J.... A....

    Enough with the useless comparisons! Just enjoy both versions... or enjoy only one of them... whatever. This is music. It's subjective. You can argue until you're blue in the face, but it still won't make any of you right.

    J.... A....

    nicely put

  64. y.... s....

    Many do not know that the poem " Strange Fruit " written and published by Abel Meeropol in 1937 who was shocked by the lynching of Afro Americans in the south was also influenced by the poem " Le Verger du Roi " by Theodore de Banville . " Le Verger du Roi " ( The orchard of the king ) makes a reference to the mass hangings under Louis XI ( France 1423-1483 )

    y.... s....

    @jb youngfr this song was written for the voice of Billie Hollyday

    y.... s....

    @Gabe Morehouse 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

    y.... s....

    One of the members of Siouxsie and the Banshees suggested Strange Fruit for their covers album but when Siouxsie read the lyrics she didn't want to hear the song. She came up with vocal melodies and they hired someone to write strings around it. There's a drunken funeral march in the middle of it. It's less bluesy and more cinematic/theatrical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trSvyZ-Wn6I

    y.... s....

    My interpretation of that is the poem, essentially in this case, moved her in a way that she wanted to preserve her interpretation of it and that listening to another's might have risked altering hers.

    y.... s....

    Just side note while the atrocities , as written, were far too common in the south the incident that sparked the poem happened in Indiana. The nature and circumstances led to a photo being taken while a mob of people in all sorts of state were present. As a result it was and is just a horrific haunting image. The third boy who was also taken straight from his jail cell was spared for varying reasons and eventually pardoned before he died. He was just 16 at the time.

  65. J.... R....

    That was painful to listen to. completely disrespected the song and everything it represents in my opinion

    J.... R....

    @Jamie Russell A White person wrote this song so don't be too disrespected. Also Jeff Buckley was a big fan of Nina Simone and dedicated this song to her every time he performed it

  66. K.... ....

    I heard somewhere that he played the intro while tuning up .. What a legend this man was

    K.... ....

    yeah, it's called noodling. alot of guitarists can do it. nothing legendary about it.

    K.... ....

    +michael Woods Playing while tuning at the same time is very difficult

    K.... ....

    @KoalaColm Ehhhhhh, not that much different than just tuning by ear. Doing it THIS well is difficult, but it's fun to do and it makes you look like billy-badass. You play for a while and you know how to get it right in one turn.

  67. E.... L....

    STRANGE FRUIT.I read comments derived from a strange prejudice that encompasses all that is wrong with humanity. This is a strong powerful piece of literature that will always remind us of our ease in which we kill all that we fear rather than love and understand. This is a poem and a song free to be sung by all those who wish our ignorance to be reminded of. I will (a white man) someday sing the blues of all blues songs for those who continue to forget that we are all brothers and sisters. I am working on it.

  68. L.... G....

    Jeff has that incredible haunted vibe in this. I don't think it's right to compare two versions of the same song by two different artists. Both carry different intentions and history, they both felt the need to record this song, they both made incredible music. Jeff's version sounds much more bluesy. Billie's that incredible jazz. I appreciate both.

  69. A.... ....

    @akshara nair ummmmm....The song is actually bout Black men being lynched by white ppl in America and the history of white supremacy in that country. As such it's a hugely culturally significant song that captures a fraction of the horrors and terrors visited on Black bodies, minds and spirits for 200+ years. So yes, the song is about Black pain, Black history and Black experiences. To try and somehow just 'universalize' this song and not "make it about Black and white" is nothing short of whitewashing, is low and an insult to all Black ppls who had a whole country and economy built on their slave labour.

    A.... ....

    Pretty sure that back then, Jews in America were not quite yet socially or politically categorized as whites and were still seen as an exotic and ethnic other/outsider who didn't fit into the racist, anglo-saxon American ideal and in fact many Jewish individuals and communities had close social, economic and educational links with Black people...of course much later Jews and other non-European immigrants to the states such as Arabs from places like Lebanon, Syria would seek to pass for whites and reap whatever benefits and privileges were attached that. My point still stands. Abel Meerpol wasn't Black himself but he wrote a poem about a very specific experience and did not try or seek to cover up its quintessentially Black subject and experience.

    A.... ....

    kunt..., your view of the history of this country is literally skin deep. Your feigned deference to an idealized and abstracted slave reeks of pandering over compensation. The lyrics of the song preclude any such imaginary attempts to universalize it. They also demand that the experience of such random cruelty and wickedness be FELT. Feeling happens below the neck. This song is visceral. Do not taint it with your literalism, your fawning, your feigned compassion for hyperbolic descriptions of the crimes of a bygone era. Slavery and cruelty are constants in human history. If you think that Billie Holiday was singing about something less than the human condition, I suggest you listen again.

    A.... ....

    NOLAIC CHCK irony that u mentioned them as they had many African slaves, as well. I am related to Michelle Obama through my Indian lineage. It is documented in the Trail of Tears book and other books on Indian history. And shows up in many people’s ancestry line. Tina Turner and Jimi Hendrix are two well known people where u can see their Indian heritage in their faces. There are many out there. One should read more history and see the documentation of what some tribes thought about their black slaves. Spaniards who held different territories and colonized what would become states in our union were really not white. Their darker skin became that way due to the Crusades when the Muslims conquered them for a short while. Read up on the man who wrote this. He was a member of the American communist party. Based on their history, this was done for manipulation. They take the downtrodden and use them to further their dreams of only a large population of poor and a small group of rich dictators as the end result. The end always justifies the means.

    A.... ....

    @Kytsche guilty of what? Of having a darker skin? Of having one freedom? Of having their children stripped away from them? You need to get you head out of the tv screens and into some history books. While you're at it, mabye some decency and respect too.

    A.... ....

    A jew stole the the lyrics from a French poem and gave it to a black musician

  70. A.... N....

    I really dont know why many people made this about being 'black' or 'white'..i believe music has no caste or race and that it should be appreciated for its remarkable efforts and ofcourse, jeff buckley's incredible yet intriguing talent

    A.... N....

    Akshara Nair This song is about how white people during the Jim Crow era in the Southern United States hung black men and women from poplar trees and then left those bodies there for up to a week to intimidate the black people that were still trying to make a living. I cannot even speak to the naivete that you exhibit in your tone deaf comment. People made this about "black or white" because that is the premise on which the song was written. Take a moment to educate yourself by looking at the plethora of videos here on YouTube that will verify the history of that period....which is less than 100 years ago.

  71. T.... L....

    Beautiful

  72. r.... ....

    For me the strange fruit contains the hollowing and cringing effect of shear horror and disgust. The way Bilie Holiday sang it was I think the best with the intention of giving us that feeling. I love Jeff Buckley and I love his version of Hallelujah, but for this song, not so much.

  73. L.... R....

    #JeffSingsBillie  #BillieAt100

  74. K.... T....

    Sooooo gooooood.

  75. A.... ....

    Forget it ! Billie is better !

  76. F.... H....

    I think its kind of inappropriate - Strange Fruit is a song that holds very deep morbid and painful memories of the past for blacks,if you have no cultural or personal connection to such a powerful song,why sing it in public?just thinking.

    F.... H....

    A white Jewish man who witnessed the lynchings himself.

    F.... H....

    You don't have to see something to know how awful it is

    F.... H....

    Well i disagree because its different when you've actually witnessed an event with your own eyes as opposed to just hearing it or seeing it from another source. 

    F.... H....

    I understand where you're coming from, but I still think that any musical artist that sings this will connect to the lyrics on an emotional level. Anybody listening can hear the emotion in Buckley's voice and some may be inspired to research the topic. Listening this kind of music could open peoples minds to the struggles of so many black people. 

    F.... H....

    @Owen Stubbs I don't think just any musical artist will be able to convey the message better than musicians who are culturally and personally connected to this song but i see your point about making others aware of the tragedies and hardship black people have been through however not just for blacks but including all ethnic groups and the inhumanity that has occurred to them throughout history, 

  77. K.... ....

     Doesn't capture the songs harrowing renascence at all. A complete fail.

    K.... ....

    @Judd Carson  This just does not capture the essence of the song. It's too sweet. My ears are fine, it's the understanding of the meaning Jeff doesn't get. An oddity for the man, being the talent he was.

    K.... ....

    that's a respectable response and opinion... I can dig that.. makes sense from that view.

    K.... ....

    Everyone clapping at the end thought it was a complete fail as well.

    K.... ....

    @davkdavk
     It is a very weak applause

    K.... ....

    @Kevin Barbour Well, the Sin-é wasn't really the biggest place

  78. F.... L....

    Been here listening to music for 20 mins and this is the first song I turned up the volume :D

  79. F.... L....

    Oh man Im dieing and havent got past one minute of guitar intro

  80. s.... ....

    So much emotions in this, fuckin hell

  81. s.... l....

    KLASSNO OCHEN...

  82. J.... B....

    I like Buckley but this certainly does not surpass the original. 

  83. V.... G....

    "The southern trees bear a strange fruit
    Blood on the leaves and blood at the roots
    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 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 the tree to drop
    Here is a strange and bitter crop"

  84. C.... O....

    are you kidding me??? Strange Fruit? I love him!!! god bless him wherever he is right now. I really hope when I die I get to meet him on the other side.

  85. D.... B....

    This is the best recording I can find of him covering this song, thank you Ben Thorman, it's much appreciated

  86. K.... ....

    This reduces me to tears. 

    K.... ....

    it did the same to me. Is so strong and sad. The pain. great rendition

  87. M.... N....

    Quintessencial goodness

  88. g.... g....

    indeed, that's no LP being coaxed into X-tacy here...

  89. s.... ....

    " it perhaps surpasses the original." heresy ._.

  90. T.... J....

    Un roman a été écrit sur ce thème, avec la même ferveur noire... Strange Fish

    T.... J....

    Magique

  91. u.... ....

    Yes, that's JB on his tele. FOR SURE. There's a video of him playing this out there somewhere.

    u.... ....

    Nah there's just snippets of a few minutes of him playing 2 or 3 songs at Sin-e including The Way Young Lovers Do but not this. They are on a bonus DVD which came with a deluxe reissue of Live at Sin-e in 2003 for the 10th anniversary :) the whole thing is only 10 minutes including a short interview. If there was anything else it would be on YouTube by now unless someone is sitting on 22 year old video of this legendary musician which is highly unlikely.

  92. I.... D....

    Beautiful version... anyone knows if is it Jeff on guitar or another guitarist? any way, great!

    I.... D....

    its jeff on guitar

    I.... D....

    thanks :)

    I.... D....

    There's some video clips of him singing live at Sin-e, it's just him and his telecaster guitar, no one else.

    I.... D....

    Another guitarist! Funny :D

  93. T.... C....

    Anyone who is getting inflamed about what FunLifeForYou is saying is missing the point about such people. Ignore them and they no longer have the sustenance that they require. It's like exposing a troll to sunlight... actually. That might work to. Make it leave the basement. It might burn up.

  94. N.... ....

    go fuck yourself

  95. k.... s....

    No, but his version is a complete mockery & watered down version of the original & Nina Simone's.

    k.... s....

    that's a bit strong....not mockery.....

  96. k.... s....

    Billie Holiday first sang this song. It is about the many, many lynchings of Black men in America. I love Nina Simone's version. This version is a mockery to me!

    k.... s....

    I treasure nina simones version most of all....I must admit....I won't listen to this again

    k.... s....

    Billie Holiday didn't "first sing this song" - she didn't write the lyrics. A Jewish Communist named Meeropol did, the fact you feel so strongly but don't know this is a mockery to me.

  97. G.... T....

    I thought his interpretation was great, yeah Abel wrote the original.

  98. G.... T....

    Billie Holiday didn't write the song, it was written as a poem.. by a white man.