Peter, Paul & Mary - Lemon Tree Lyrics
When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,Come here and learn a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.Dont put your faith in love, my boy, my father said to me,I fear youll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweetBut the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweetBut the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.Beneath the lemon tree one day, my love and I did a lieA girl so sweet that when she smiled the sun rose in the sky.We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon treeThe music of her laughter hid my fathers words from me:Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweetBut the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweetBut 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 left behind, I knew what she had done.Shed left me for another, its 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 sweetBut the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweetBut the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
