[ti:Lemon Tree]
[ar:Peter Paul and Mary]
[al:]
[00:05.87]When I was just a lad of ten,
[00:10.00]my father said to me,
[00:11.89]"Come here and learn a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.
[00:17.55]Don't put your faith in love, my boy."
[00:21.28]My father said to me,
[00:23.08]"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree."
[00:29.18]Lemon tree very pretty,
[00:33.27]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[00:36.36]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[00:42.44]Lemon tree very pretty,
[00:46.23]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[00:46.68]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[00:56.56]Beneath the lemon tree one day
[00:58.84]my love and I did lie.
[01:01.93]A girl so sweet that when she smiled, the stars rose in the sky.
[01:08.02]We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree.
[01:13.12]The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me.
[01:20.10]Lemon tree very pretty,
[01:23.59]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[01:25.81]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[01:32.55]Lemon tree very pretty,
[01:34.60]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[01:37.69]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[01:46.41]One day she left without a word,
[01:49.62]she took away the sun.
[01:53.04]And in the dark she'd left behind,
[01:55.27]I knew what she had done.
[02:00.34]She left me for another;
[02:04.66]it's a common tale but true.
[02:09.16]A sadder man but wiser now,
[02:13.65]I sing these words to you.
[02:18.55]Lemon tree very pretty,
[02:20.04]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[02:24.94]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[02:28.83]Lemon tree very pretty,
[02:32.93]and the lemon flower is sweet,
[02:36.02]but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
[02:37.12]Lemon tree Lemon tree
[02:40.21]Lemon tree Lemon tree
[02:44.31]Lemon tree Lemon tree
[02:49.40]Lemon tree Lemon tree