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."         
                                                  
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    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.    
                                                  
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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 left me for another, it's  
a common tale but true. A sadder man but wiser    
now, I sing these words to you.                   
                                                  
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