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Lemon tree

Song composer: Will Holt

Lyrics author: Will Holt

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When	I was	just a	lad of ten,

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my father	said to	me,

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"Come here and	take a	lesson from the

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	lovely lemon	tree."

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"Don't	put your	faith in	love,

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my boy," my father	said to	me,

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"I fear you'll	find that	love

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is like the lovely	lemon	tree."

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	Lemon	tree, very pretty,

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	and the lemon flower is	sweet,

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	But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to	eat.

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	Lemon	tree, very pretty,

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	and the lemon flower is	sweet,

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	But the fruit of the 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 father's words from me.

Lemon tree ...

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 ...

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