Peter, Paul And Mary - Lemon Tree Lyrics

Can't help being the catechist that I am. ( I teach teens in Sunday School). If we wait for true love , it is so much sweeter. The lemon can deceive us. True sweetness comes when we wait for fruit to ripen.

i love this song and im 11

I love the sweet lemon pickle so common in North India

TEMPO BOM AQUELE.

Heard this playing at work. Super weird but I've grown to love it

mary was the most n babe back then,i was 5 @1960,n loved her n the 3 o

god come back how sweet the sound the voices the music eats at my ears for ever

Das ist das Schöne am Leben. Im 50. Lebensjahr stehend, höre ich dieses wundervolle Lied zum ersten Mal. Ich stelle mir vor, wie ich mit 96 in einem Schaukelstuhl versunken bin und leise dieses Lied singe. Und genau wie jetzt wird mein Herz von Liebe erfüllt sein.

Loved how Peter came out of one speaker, Paul the other and Mary managed to be in the middle

These lyrics tell a story of ‘love lost’. Beautiful melody. This trio was iconic. 🥰👍☺️

My Latin teacher freshman year of high school once told us he puckered, choked and passed out purely by listening to this song. That guy was a legend

The thing I love about this comment section is that half of the comments here are enjoying the nice folk tune while the other half is just having this big collective Vietnam flashback.

Poor Curt Lemon.

my nigga curt fucking died

Dedicated 2 My Man Russell 🍋🍋🍋

I have always loved there songs if we western singing there songs around a church campfire as kids we were singing some of there songs standing on the sidewalk carrying signs to bring our guys home from VietNam or using some of there songs at weddings loved these people and there songs

I got a sprite ad before this

Legend!

Who else is here because of Married With Children?

I was just telling my mum about a 70s song to do with lemons. Takes me back.

i remember my English teacher played this when i was in highschool. she made us interpret the song.

It's time to get that book off the shelf again

It is so nice to hear these good ole folk songs again. To me they are timeless...

My mom sang me this

I was eight years old back 1970, the first time I heard Peter, Paul and Mary.
The words of this song still ring true.
However, as we grow older, so does our wisdom grow with us.

Never heard these guys before. Nice song.

I got this song stuck in my head today and couldn't get it out...lol

Seinfeld brought me here

Seinfeld brought me here

The paragraph about Curt Lemon was the darkest thing I've read in years

lesson for us to learn from.

awesome

They were so good. Thank you for posting this.

RIP Curt Lemon

I miss you dad.

RIP Curt

https://youtu.be/wE-uyQW7f-8

The Things They Carried people where u at?

I actually like eating lemons🤣

I recall the song being used by television and radio ads for cleaning products but it hasn't been played in a really long time where I live in CA.

Dave Jenson brought me here

Funny my father #Elvis said that Mary from this group died but it’s funny my cousin Christine Couneau is still alive and kicking. @JerryMacDonald of #Chanhassan is this why you had to play #secret #agent man in #Minnesota ?

This is going to be one of the next songs I learn on guitar, beautiful and true

My lemon tree has about 400 lemons. I was thinking..."what was that song....?" That's why I came here.

Voltei à infância

Never beaten, never equalled even, simply the best

These songs were real music,not the off color garbage that tries to pass as music.There're a few good songs today,just not as much.

Songs from a time when America was still great, not the government but the artists

michael row the boat ashore

I love music like this + some Creedence Clearwater Revival.

There's murder in those eyes...

Lemons are NOT impossible to eat.

Lemon makes a very healthy
drink for the morning,
Full of vitamin C to aid
Keeping colds at bay
for the winter.
Lovely old song.
Thank You
❤️🦋🦋🦋😇🌈😇🌈

thank God we have recordings. Nobody makes music like this anymore. Richard in Dallas.

The times they are a changing!

"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" - Cave Johnson

this is just beauuuuutiful too hear love, Love, love, love this timelessly elegantly lovely classic gem of a tune very grooooovvvvvyyyy yeah peace everyone😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉.

There is meaning here somehow?

"The gore was horrible, and stays with me. But what wakes me up twenty years later is Dave Jensen singing 'Lemon Tree' as we threw down the parts."
-The Things They Carried

pure poetry

🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

Who is the author?

Had to look this up from the things they carried

If lemons were impossible to eat they wouldn’t sell many would they?

Beautiful harmonies on a great song. This is a timeless classic.

I used to sing this to chicks I dated... It would really piss them off. im single haha

I remembered my old memories through this song with singing Karaoke. It means like TIMEMACHINE effect buck to the old time. I recommend all of U try to find real of yourself what you are? at this time. Terima Kashi, and Malamin Salamat & Arigato for the song.

The Trini Lopez version is also good.

Married With Children brought me here.

very good

Wow... Its even in surround sound :O

try to just use a bit of lemon on the dish. I swear this culture is obsessed with sex.

My friend literally eats pure lemon rind and I find it hilarious to hear this song.

Ironic that you call this a love song. I think you are missing the point?

I like these kind of Songs.

Trick or treat

These songs will take you a trip down memory lane. 😁

This is my type of music.

The moral of the story -
Bitches stink and taste like ass.

A Seinfeld episode brought me here😂

Seinfeld brought me here

I love this song​, it sticks in my head all day

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 faith in love, my boy" my father said to me
"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree"

Chorus: Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is 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 smiled, the stars rose in the sky
We passed that summer lost in love, beneath the lemon tree
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me

Chorus

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

Chorus

1:47 That's what happens when you date an Aquarian.

This song release before Justin bieber born!!

Mary Travers.

Very nice song. I love lemons and lemon tree and therefore this song. This song also helps my lemon tree to grow faster. ^^

this is when you could understand the lyrics, not the crap thats played today

my mom has been singing just the chorus to this for years, its nice to finally hear the rest but she is was cuter when she sings it lol

Mary R.I.P.

Lyrics
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 faith 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 is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is 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 smiled, the stars rose in the sky
We passed that summer lost in love, beneath the lemon tree
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me

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

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

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

@Thomas Jewell , ♡ Thank you.

I only realised how powerful these lyrics are.

@asianpotatoe Please explain them to me.

@Irish Countryman ok, this is my own interpretation (i think this is everyone's since the lyrics are quite obvious tbh), the lemon tree is characterized as a person who is very beautiful outside but terrible inside. the part "lemon tree, very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat" explains a lot about a song if you just see the lemon tree as a person not just a tree. i personally think the best part is "a sadder man but wiser now, i sing these words to you", like those who knew lot about things are the saddest bc they're being fed with real informations

@asianpotatoe Thanks Alot. It makes sense.

Love the lyrics on this song.

notes of bossa nova

This seems to be the male counterpart to the song "Silver Dagger" where the mother warns the daughter never to fall in love or marry because they'll all love you and leave you, just like her father. I wonder if there's a whole genre of these beyond these two songs.

tender voice,sweet songs 👍👍👍👍👍👍

It's beyond me how Trini Lopez's version could've charted higher. I mean, didn't record buyers understand that it was supposed to be a depressing song, not upbeat and cheerful?

kyonki mere bete ke school mai ye song sikha rahe hai toh usse chahiya

iss video ko save kyo nahi kar sakte