Lemon Tree Lyrics - Bobby Bare

When I was just a lad of ten my father said to me 

Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree 

Don't put your fate in love my boy my father said to me 

I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree 

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower's sweet 

But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat 

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower's 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 smiles the star grows in the sky 

We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree 

The music of her laughter hit my father's words for me 

Lemon tree very pretty 

Lemon tree very pretty