This song is about the practice of lynching - when a group of people kills someone for an alleged offense without a fair trial, especially by hanging. The practice was common at the time the song was released in 1939.
Most poignant lyric: Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze | Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
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