PETER, PAUL & MARY - Lemon Tree lyrics
rate meWhen I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,<br>Come here and learn a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.<br>Don't put your faith in love, my boy, my father said to me,<br>I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.<br><br>Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet<br>But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.<br>Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet<br>But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.<br><br>Beneath the lemon tree one day, my love and I did a lie<br>A girl so sweet that when she smiled the sun rose in the sky.<br>We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree<br>The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me:<br><br>Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet<br>But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.<br>Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet<br>But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.<br><br>One day she left without a word. she took away the sun.<br>And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done.<br>She'd left me for another, it's a common tale but true.<br>A sadder man but wiser now I sing these words to you:<br><br>Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet<br>But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.<br>Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet<br>But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
