and they had cassandra wilson's-- i think it was her grammy award-winning album, new moon daughter asions on one of the channels, and that album has strange fruit on it. but the united airlines version cut it out. and i thought, "well, this is censorship"-- "i mean, just, you know, taking out one cut from an album." this guy was clearly a very progressive type, and he said, "listen, it's not the kind of song that people want to hear at 35,000 feet." you know, and i guess that's true, but it does suggest how it's not to everybody's taste. billie had a difficult life, and i don't want to read too much into the song, but there's some kind of symbiotic relationship going on there. there really is. i mean, i kind of compare it-- there's a kind of dorian gray quality to it all. she took on the coloration of the song. the song became more and more-- the song became more her, and she became more the song. and her performances of it become more poignant and more personal and more painful in a way. the version that we heard a bit of before was the original version, the 1939 version. and there's