Lemon Tree

DESCRIPTION: "When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me, Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree." Love is like the lemon tree: "Lemon tree, very pretty.... But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat." The warning is true
AUTHOR: Will Holt
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (recordings, Kingston Trio; Peter, Paul and Mary)
KEYWORDS: love warning campsong
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 238, 543, "Lemon Tree" (notes only)
DT, LEMONTRE
SAME TUNE:
Lemon Tree (MIT Parody) (DT, LEMNTRE2)
File: DTlemont

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