Lemon tree
Peter,Paul & Mary
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.
Lemon tree...
Blowing In The Wind
Peter,Paul & Mary
How many roads must a man walk down
Before they call him a man
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand
How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
How many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry
How many deaths will it take
'Till he knows that too many people have died
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
Peter,Paul & Mary
Peter,Paul & Mary 是上世纪60年代最受欢迎的重唱组合，后来的几十年也证明了他们是音乐历史上生命最长久的团体之一。他们的根比任何一个民谣团体都要扎得深，他们的影响力所波及的听众群是其他民谣团体可望不可及的。
这个三人组合在他们的传奇生涯中共获得了5个格来美奖，发行了5张Top 10专辑，6张金唱片和3张白金唱片。Peter,Paul & Mary 由 Peter Yarrow，Paul Stookey 和 Mary Travers 组成，他们原来分别活跃于音乐界。在一段几乎有如传奇的历程之后，在后来 Bob Dylan 的经纪人 Grossman 的建议下，正式组成三重唱。
1962年五月，他们首度以《Lemon Tree》打进排行，一炮而红，接着又以老前辈 Pete Seeger 的《If I Had a Hammer》得到了排行的第十名，同时荣获“最佳合唱团体”和“最佳民歌录音”等两项格莱美奖。这是他们自己最钟爱的歌曲之一，对政治，对世情都提出了批判，也树立起后来他们许多“抗议”歌曲的模式。
事实上，他们三个人之所以能够情投意合，除了音乐上的理念相近，更因为他们对于政治的思想都一致。他们不但在歌曲中唱出自己的想法，还经常一起积极的去参与各种群众运动，而且数十年如一日，并不像许多人那样，在稍微上了点年纪之后就冷淡下来。而除了自身的创作，他们还独具慧眼的采用了好些“新人”的作品，包括Bob Dylan，John Denver和来自加拿大的Gordon Lightfool 等等，就是因为Peter, Paul & Mary 率先唱红了他们的作品，他们才开始引起广泛注意的。
Yesterday Once More
Carpenters
when i was young i'd listen to the radio
waiting for my favorite songs
when they played i'd sing along,
it make me smile.
those were such happy times and not so long ago
how i wondered where they'd gone.
but they're back again just like a long lost friend
all the songs i love so well.
every shalala every wo'wo
still shines.
every shing-a-ling-a-ling that they're starting
to sing so fine
when they get to the part
where he's breaking her heart
it can really make me cry
just like before.
it's yesterday once more.
(shoobie do lang lang)
looking bak on how it was in years gone by
and the good times that had
