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'd 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.

    临睡前找东西,倒是找到了数年不用的CD机.于是又将CD们一一找出,一点一点听过去,曾经的不合时宜,依然的不合时宜.笑笑:大约永远都不可能合时宜了罢.

    再次听到Peter/Paul/Mary的《LEMON TREE》，仿佛醍醐灌顶，那许多年，轻声哼哼着：“Lemon tree,very pretty,and lemon flower sweet.”却不曾仔细思忖这首歌的真正含义，又或者说是被这首歌的轻快节奏欺骗了许多年，一直将它当作是一首阳光灿烂的歌。

    他们是60年代美国最有影响、最出色的民谣三重组，翻唱了许多后来人们耳熟能详的歌曲。他们的歌纯净而悠扬，但另一首《Monday Morning》却是另一番模样，以至于，我在同一时间喜欢着这两首歌，却从未想过它们是同一个组合所唱。

    又是一年草长莺飞。