Strange Fruit - Lyrics - Aaron
In the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, Aaron was the older brother of Moses, , a prophet of God. Unlike Moses who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the eastern border-land of Egypt . When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king about the Israelites, Aaron served as his brother's spokesman to Pharaoh. Part of the Law that Moses received from God at Sinai granted Aaron the priesthood for himself and his male descendants, and he became the first High Priest of the Israelites. Various dates for his life have been proposed, ranging from approximately 1600 to 1200 BC. Aaron died before the Israelites crossed the Jordan river and he was buried on Mount Hor Aaron is also mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible.
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Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves, blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallow South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The 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
