[00:07.38]When I was just a lad of ten,
[00:11.50]my father said to me,
[00:13.39]"Come here and learn a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.
[00:19.05]Don't put your faith in love, my boy."
[00:22.78]My father said to me,
[00:24.58]"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree."
[00:30.68]Lemon tree very pretty,
[00:34.77]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[00:37.86]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[00:43.94]Lemon tree very pretty,
[00:47.73]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[00:48.18]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[00:58.06]Beneath the lemon tree one day
[01:00.34]my love and I did lie.
[01:03.43]A girl so sweet that when she smiled, the stars rose in the sky.
[01:09.52]We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree.
[01:14.62]The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me.
[01:21.60]Lemon tree very pretty,
[01:25.09]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[01:27.31]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[01:34.05]Lemon tree very pretty,
[01:36.10]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[01:39.19]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[01:47.91]One day she left without a word,
[01:51.12]she took away the sun.
[01:54.54]And in the dark she'd left behind,
[01:56.77]I knew what she had done.
[02:01.84]She left me for another;
[02:06.16]it's a common tale but true.
[02:10.66]A sadder man but wiser now,
[02:15.15]I sing these words to you.
[02:20.05]Lemon tree very pretty,
[02:21.54]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[02:26.44]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[02:30.33]Lemon tree very pretty,
[02:34.43]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[02:37.52]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[02:38.62]Lemon tree Lemon tree
[02:41.71]Lemon tree Lemon tree
[02:45.81]Lemon tree Lemon tree
[02:50.90]Lemon tree Lemon tree
[02:56.00]Don't put your faith in love, my boy."