Lemon Tree - The Kingston Trio

作曲：Will Holt

When I was just a little boy

My father said to me

Come here and learn a lesson from the lovely lemon tree

My son it's most important

My father said to me

to put your faith in what you feel and not in what you see

Lemon tree

Very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

But the fruit of the poor lemon is a thing one cannot eat

Lemon tree

Very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

But the fruit of the poor lemon is a thing one cannot eat

Beneath that Lemon Tree one day

My love and I did lie

A girl so sweet that when she smiled

The sun rose in the sky

We passed the summer lost in love beneath the Lemon Tree

The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

But the fruit of the poor lemon is a thing one cannot eat

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

But the fruit of the poor lemon is a thing one cannot 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

She 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 very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

But the fruit of the poor lemon is a thing one cannot eat

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

But the fruit of the poor lemon is a thing one cannot eat