Harry Belafonte - "Lemon Tree" lyrics
*** Complimentary Lemon Tree Ringtone ***
When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me
Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.
I'll fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.
Don't put your faith in love my boy, my father said to me,
Beneath the lemon tree one day my love and I did lie,
Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
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Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.
I'll fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.
Don't put your faith in love my boy, my father said to me,
Beneath the lemon tree one day my love and I did lie,
Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
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A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky.
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me.
We past that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree,
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She left me for another it's a common tale, but true,
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.
A sadder tale, but wiser now I sing this song for you.
REF (3x)
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me.
We past that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree,
REF (2x)
She left me for another it's a common tale, but true,
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.
A sadder tale, but wiser now I sing this song for you.
REF (3x)
*** Complimentary Lemon Tree Ringtone ***
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