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