Lemon tree
1.
When I was just a lad of
ten, my father said to me,
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"Come here and take a lesson from the lovely Lemon Tree."
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"Don't put your faith in love, my boy", my father said to me,
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"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely Lemon Tree."
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower
is sweet,
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but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
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Lemon Tree very pretty and the lemon flower is
sweet,
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but the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat.
2.
One day beneath the Lemon Tree, my love
and I did lie,
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a girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the
sky.
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We
passed that summer lost in love, beneath the lemon tree,
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the music of her
laughter hid my father's words from me: + CHORUS
3.
One day she left without a word, she took
away the sun,
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and in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done.
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She'd left me for another, it's a common tale
but true,
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a sadder man but wiser now, I sing these words to you: +
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Lemon tree, lemon tree.