This video was posted to BoingBoing, I've seen it before but I thought I'd post it all the same. It's a beautiful, heart-wrenching performance that's difficult for me to watch, haunting and dark as that song is. In the biography With Billie by Julia Blackburn, which is by far my favorite Holiday biography (and I've read them all), Blackburn talks about how white audiences would clamor to hear Strange Fruit, but after a while Billie just didn't want to sing it. I imagine it took a lot out of her.