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When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,
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"Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.
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Don't put your faith in love my boy," my father said to me.
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"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree."
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Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
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But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
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Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
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But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
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One day beneath the lemon tree my love and I did lie.
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A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky.
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We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree.
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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.
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And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done.
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She left me for another, it's a common tale but true.
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A sadder man but wiser now, I sing these words to you.
