Lemon Tree

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When I was just a lad of ten, my 
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father said to me,
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"Come here and take a lesson from
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 the lovely lemon tree.
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Don't put your faith in love my 
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boy," my father said to me.
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"I fear you'll find that love is 
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like the lovely lemon tree."

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Lemon tree, very pretty, and 
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the lemon flower is sweet,
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But the fruit of the poor lemon is 
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impossible to eat.
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Lemon tree, very pretty, and the 
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lemon flower is sweet,
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But the fruit of the poor lemon is
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 impossible to eat.

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One day beneath the lemon tree my 
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love and I did lie.
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A girl so sweet that when she 
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smiled the stars rose in the sky.
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We passed that summer lost in 
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love beneath the lemon tree.
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The music of her laughter hid my 
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father's words from me.



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One day she left without a word, 
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she took away the sun.
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And in the dark she left behind, 
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I knew what she had done.
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She left me for another, it's a 
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common tale but true.
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A sadder man but wiser now, I 
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sing these words to you.