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

Beneath the lemon tree one day

My love and I did a lie

A girl so sweet that when she smiled

The sun 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 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