Henry's Songbook

        Lemon tree very pretty
        And the lemon flower is sweet
        But the fruit of the poor lemon
        Is impossible to eat

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

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

One day she left without a word, she took away the sun
And in the dark she'd 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

(as sung by Peter Paul & Mary)