text: When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me
  Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.
  Dont put your faith in love, my boy, my father said to me
  I fear youll 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
  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 fathers words from me:
  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 she left without a word. She took away the sun
  And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done
  Shed left me for another, its a common tale but true
  A sadder man but wiser now I sing these words to you:
  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