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God, there are so many to choose from. One of my faves is from a Mose Allison jazz tune, Lost Mind:
If you would be so kind
To help me find my mind
I wanna thank you in advance
Know this before you start
My souls been torn apart
Lost it in a wild romance
BTW, even though he's a jazz artist, his tunes have been done by well-known rock artists. The Who's Young Man Blues is a cover of a Mose Allison original.
Billie Holiday sang one of the original protest songs in Strange Fruit, recently covered by Tori Amos:
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
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