LEMON TREE
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'll 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
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 father's words from me
* Lemon tree, very pretty
And the lemon
flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon
Is impossible to
eat
One day she left without a word
She took away the
sun
And in the dark she'd left behind
I knew what she had done
She left
me for another
It's a common tale but true
A sadder man but wiser now
I
sing these words to you
* Lemon tree, very pretty
And the lemon
flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon
Is impossible to
eat
Lemon tree, lemon
tree