Billie Holiday song

Rebecca Ferguson has said that she would perform at the inauguration if the can sing a song that Billy Holiday made famous in the 1930's.

Quote: Lyrics for Strange Fruit

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

Written by Lewis Allan, Maurice Pearl, Dwayne P Wiggins • Copyright © Peermusic Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group

What a charming song, who wouldn't want
it sung at a gala event. Good grief. Lefties
act like Trump wants Jim Crow to come
back, they're believing the very lies they
themselves started.

So let her sing it and let the backdrop that supreme court justice who marched in klan parade back in thedays where if the womens auxiliary of the klan didn't back you you didn't get elected.

Also show all those photos of white women proudly viewing the lynching and the swinging corpse.

Th eklan was the only regional law enforcement force in many areas .... they may have enforced laws regarding a black man who looked a white woman directly in the eye but they also enforced laws about the rape of a white woman. No other police force could ever guarantee white women that there would be a body hanging from a tree before the next day. And if sometimes they hanged the wrong man... well, it was still a lesson about getting "uppity''.