同じ曲がどのぐらい載っているのか、ぱっと見ただけではよくわからない。 う~ん、あ、「奇妙な果実(Strange Fruit)」。 "33 REVOLUTIONS"の一曲目(1939年)、『プロテスト・ソング・クロニクル』では「SAY IT LOUD - I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD ---- 人種差別を許さない歌」の最初に挙げられてる。
IT IS A CLEAR,fresh New York night in March 1939. Over in Europe, the Spanish Civil War is about to end in victory of General Franco's Nationalists; by the end of the month, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain will have officially abandoned his policy of appeasement towards Hitler's Germany. In the United States, John Steinbeck'sThe Grapes of Wrath, na epic tale of sharecroppers during the Great Depression, is on its own way to the printers and will end up being the biggest-selling novel of the year. A movie of Margaret Mitchell's best sellerGone with the Wind
♪ 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.