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."
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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 pa**ed the summer lost in love beneath the Lemon Tree.
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me.
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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.
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