Lemon Tree - Peter, Paul & Mary

   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

   Lemon Tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

   But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

   Lemon Tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

   But the fruit of the poor 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

   Lemon Tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

   But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

   Lemon Tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

   But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

   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'd left me for another, it's a common tale but true

   A sadder man but wiser now I sing these words to you

   Lemon Tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

   But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

   Lemon Tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

   But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

   Lemon Tree

   Lemon Tree

   Lemon Tree