Lemon Tree Lyrics

When I was just a lad of ten
My father said to me
Come here and take a lesson
From the lovely lemon tree

Don’t put your faith in love my boy
My father said to me
I fear you find that love is like
The lovely lemon tree

Lemon tree very pretty
And the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon
Is impossible to eat

Lemon tree very pretty
And the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon
Is impossible to eat

One day beneath the lemon tree
My love and I did lie
A girl so sweet that when she smiled
The stars rose in the sky

We passed that summer lost in love
Beneath the lemon tree
The music of her laughter
Hid my fathers words for me

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One day she left without a word
She took away the sun
And in the dark she left behind
I knew what she had done

She left me for another
Its a common tale but true
As sadder man but wiser now
I sing these words to you

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