Lemon Tree Lyrics

Lemon Tree

Roger Whittaker
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.

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"I

fear you'll

find that

love is

like the

lovely

lemon

tree."

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Lemon

tree,

very

pretty,

and the

lemon

flower is

sweet,

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But the

fruit of the poor lemon is im

possible 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 poor lemon is im

possi

ble to

eat.
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One

day be

neath 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 be

neath the

lemon

tree.

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C
The

music

of her

laughter

hid my

father's

words from

me.

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One

day she

left with

out a word, she

took a

way the

sun.

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And

in the

dark she

left be

hind, I

knew what

she had

done.

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She

left me

for a

nother, it's a

common

tale but

true.

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A

sadder

man but

wiser

now, I

sing these

words to

you.