Trini Lopez-Lemon Tree lyrics

Lemon Tree   
 
  
  Peter Paul and Mary   
 
  
  Will Holt   
 
  
    
 
  
  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.`   
 
  
    
 
  
  Chorus:   
 
  
  Lemon tree, very pretty, and  
 the lemon flower is sweet,   
 
  
  But the fruit of the  
 lemon is impossible to eat.   
 
  
  Lemon tree, very pretty, and  
 the lemon flower is sweet,   
 
  
  But the fruit of the  
 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.   
 
  
    
 
  
  Chorus   
 
  
    
 
  
  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,  
 it`s a common tale but true,   
 
  
  A sadder man, but wiser now,  
 I sing these words to you.   
 
  
    
 
  
  Chorus