When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me
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Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.
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Don't put your faith in love my boy, my father said to me,
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I'll 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,
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But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
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Beneath the lemon tree one day my love and I did lie,
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A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky.
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We past that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree,
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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,
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And in the dark she'd left behind I knew what she had done.
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She left me for another it's a common tale, but true,
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A sadder tale, but wiser now I sing this song for you.
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Lemon Tree
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| Harry Belafonte |
